Able Quote by Hippocrates

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from…

— Hippocrates

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases…

— Voltaire

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like…

— W. H. Auden

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

— Voltaire

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should…

— Charaka

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included…

— Isabel Allende