Knowledge Quote by Marcel Proust

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”

— Marcel Proust

“This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with'disease'. They…

— Amy Reed

“It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body's repair forces so that illness can be…

— José Silva

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

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.”

— Howard Florey

“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”

— Michael J. Collins

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Sick people have no difficulty in telling you why healing is important.”

— Zondervan Publishing

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“And someone else wrote me, "What I want is to know your own experience of illness." Why the interest? People on their ailments are…

— Nan Shin