Belief Quote by Florence Nightingale

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no…

— Florence Nightingale

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

— Florence Nightingale

“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper…

— Florence Nightingale

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the…

— Florence Nightingale

Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from…

— Florence Nightingale

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

— Florence Nightingale

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that…

— Florence Nightingale

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as…

— Florence Nightingale

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula,…

— Florence Nightingale