Important Quote by Hippocrates

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

— Hippocrates

“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”

— William Osler

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

— Hippocrates

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

— William Osler

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease…

— Susanna Kaysen

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love…

— George Sheehan

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I…

— Bernie Siegel

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

— Seneca the Younger

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

— M. Scott Peck