Education Quote by Thomas Bernhard Download Open image “The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.” — Thomas Bernhard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Poetic Science Sickness Study
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.” — William Owens Copy Share Image
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all… — John Donne Copy Share
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of suddenly expressing in black and white things that for years had only been private thoughts, speculations. Then too I was checked by a reluctance to bring up possibly long-forgotten matters as essential evidence for my view of us.… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
