Disease Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

— Seneca the Younger

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

— Voltaire

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that…

— Robert Owen

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

— Michael J. Knowles

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult…

— Rene Dubos

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

— B. J. Palmer

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

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille