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Wilfred Trotter has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable,…
— George Santayana
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them…
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How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts…
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded…
— Hannibal
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a…
— Plato
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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really…
— Christopher Dawson
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison,…
— William Gurnall
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So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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