Doctors Quote by Voltaire

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

— Voltaire

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

— Voltaire

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

— John Taylor

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”

— Sarah Ballantyne

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 physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

— Mark Twain

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him…

— Gilles Menage

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even…

— Alice Dreger

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

— Robertson Davies

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part…

— Atul Gawande

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler