Accounts Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

— E. F. Schumacher

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

— John Bradshaw

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

— Adelle Davis

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no…

— George Carlin

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

— Flannery O'Connor

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for…

— R. G. Collingwood

All diseases have their cure; only death doesn't have it

— Anonymous

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless…

— Plato