Commencement Quote by Robert James Graves

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at…

— Hippocrates

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

— Thomas Bernhard

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From…

— William S. Burroughs

Check disease in its approach.

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity…

— John Wesley

The modern style of life before born/ preparing the disease causes. And after then the finding solution of diagnosis.

— Mak_786

“Illness begins, and normal experience ends, at the point at which your everyday functioning is affected and continues to be affected beyond what would…

— Dr Stefan Cembrowicz

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust