Books Quote by Rbazes

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they…

— Paracelsus

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”

— sir william osler

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and…

— Marcel Proust

“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

— James Bryce

“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

— Russell Banks

“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families,…

— Anne Lamott

“A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths”

— Oscar London

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.”

— Martina Tutková

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson