Best Medicine Sayings
1549 Medicine quotes by 1016 unique authors
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking…
— Jonas Salk
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We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who…
— Mother Teresa
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Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....
— Karl A. Menninger
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long…
— Frances M. Young
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
— Marcel Proust
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There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.
— Josh Billings
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Laughter is the best creative medicine.
— John Cleese
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
— Hippocrates
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of…
— Hippocrates
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When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more…
— Lewis Thomas
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Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.
— Jim Stovall
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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like…
— Saint Augustine
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
— Saint Augustine
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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they…
— Mark Twain
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
— Samuel Johnson
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
— Hippocrates
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that…
— John Dryden
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the…
— Johannes Kepler
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
— Hippocrates
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In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but…
— Claude Bernard
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with…
— H. L. Mencken
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