Every day Quote by Voltaire

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained,…

— Charles Loomis Dana

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like…

— W. H. Auden

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included…

— Isabel Allende

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do…

— Hippocrates

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

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress…

— Ihara Saikaku

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom…

— Voltaire

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to…

— Hippocrates

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

“Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's…

— Jerome E. Groopman