Physician Quotes

275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. — Publilius Syrus
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear… — Honore de Balzac
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. — Plutarch
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician… — John Owen
I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old. — Samuel Wilson
Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be… — David Eisenberg
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can… — Erasmus Darwin
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a… — Francis of Assisi
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. — William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. — William Osler
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get… — Saint Basil
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All… — Arno C. Gaebelein
Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. — Khalil Gibran
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time… — Charles Caleb Colton
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They… — Norman Cousins
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his… — Harvey Cushing

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