Brain Quote by Richard Selzer Download Open image “The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.” — Richard Selzer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Doctor Doe Dream Know Patient Knows Parts Brain Patience Patient Patient Dreams Surgeon Surgeon Knows Surgeons
Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later,… — John W. Kirklin Copy Share Image
You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations. — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
“People sometimes ask what it’s like to be a surgeon who works with the living human brain each day. I think sometimes it’s like… — Peter Black Copy Share Image
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Thinking of sex provides enough mental stimulation to reduce risk of diseases that damage the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
