Doctors Quote by Samuel Butler

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust

In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.

— Jeremy Hunt

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

— Limmy

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against…

— David Brin

Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about…

— Peter Buffett

“The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be…

— Danielle Ofri

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

— Jessica Savitch

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

— George Bernard Shaw

“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world,…

— John Brockman

Plenty of things are mistakes, but some mistakes are like seeds, and they grow into purposes.

— Superman

“Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich