Physician Quotes

275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. — Voltaire
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. — Joshua Lederberg
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the… — Bruce R. McConkie
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own… — Georg Groddeck
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. — George Herbert
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would… — Soren Kierkegaard
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an… — Thomas Traherne
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why,… — P.B. Kerr
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its… — Aeschylus
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands… — Margaret Sanger
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm… — Rand Paul
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...… — Plato
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,… — Plato
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick? — Plato
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an… — Unknown Author
The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so… — Joel Garreau
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger

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