Being smart Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.

— Katty Kay

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

— Thomas Wolfe

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

— Marcel Proust

People are sick, they can be, why are we so?

— Jacob

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

— Tony Snow

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The things that make us human often make us ill.

— Jonathan Rosen

Sickness shows us what we are

— Latin Proverb

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

— Bonnie Bassler

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

— Joseph Brodsky