Disease Quote by Hippocrates

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a 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

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

— Richard Clarke Cabot

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

— Seneca the Younger

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

— Aeschylus

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

— M. Scott Peck

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

— Immanuel Kant

Health has its science, as well as disease.

— Elizabeth Blackwell