Medicine Quotes

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. (Hippocrates)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. View quote
William Osler
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. View quote
William Osler
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. View quote
Ivan Illich
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. View quote
Voltaire
Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know lessen human beings of which they know nothing. View quote
Voltaire
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. View quote
William Osler
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. View quote
William Osler
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. (Alfred Kinsey)
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. View quote
Plutarch
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. View quote
Lord Byron
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. View quote
Thomas Edison
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. View quote
George Balanchine
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. View quote
Carol Vorderman
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. View quote
Thomas Paine
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. (Michio Kushi)
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches. View quote
Vincent Gallo
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Let him [who would be an architect] be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens. View quote
Vitruvius