Disease Quote by Immanuel Kant

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

— Franz Kafka

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something…

— Venus Williams

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

It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor.

— Camille Grammer

“If your doctor does not understand ‘Invisible Diseases’, you should change to a doctor that does.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Hippocrates

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

— Darold Treffert

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

— William Osler

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

— John Donne

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians…

— Mark Hyman

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

— Hippocrates