"Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of……" — Florence Nightingale

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be… - Florence Nightingale

"Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well."

— Florence Nightingale

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85 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we…
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances…
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that…
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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More Abuse Quotes

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand

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