Physician Quotes

275 quotes by 191 authors

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
The physician heals, Nature makes well. — Aristotle
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and… — Alexander Pope
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules.… — George W. Bush
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill… — Margaret Mead
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. — Hippocrates
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and… — David M. Brown
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking. — Giorgio Baglivi
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William James Mayo
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can… — Unknown Author
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should… — Elizabeth Blackwell
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial… — Corinne Heline
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it… — Corinne Heline
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. — Walter Raleigh
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano

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