Physician Quotes

275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. — Gerald Jonas
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular… — C.S. Lewis
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without… — William J. H. Boetcker
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink… — Jay Adams
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible… — Wallace D. Wattles
The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run… — Unknown Author
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship. — Abraham Verghese
The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician. — Thomas Boston
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that… — Ina May Gaskin
The sun - my almighty physician. — Thomas Jefferson
The physician treats, but nature heals. — Hippocrates
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped… — C. Everett Koop
Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician. — Unknown Author
Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine. — Richard Clarke Cabot
As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease. — Caldwell Esselstyn
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician… — Rainer Maria Rilke
And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between… — Unknown Author

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