Physician Quotes

275 quotes by 200 authors

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support,… — Elizabeth Blackwell
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. — Samuel Butler
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we… — Richard Carmona
You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot… — Benjamin Carson
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except… — Giacomo Casanova
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and… — James Elroy Flecker
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can… — Andrew Weil
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates
Nature itself is the best physician. — Hippocrates
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
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. — Saint Augustine
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
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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