Books Quote by John Steinbeck

“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

“He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why…

— Garth Stein

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no…

— John Steinbeck

“[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“Yes,” he thought; “he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The doctor was clueless!”

— Steven Magee

“The Doctor had a remarkable memory. The problem was, there was so much of it. He had lived eleven lives (or more: there was…

— Neil Gaiman