Physician Quotes - page 7

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. (Benjamin Franklin)
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. View quote
William Osler
Few lies carry the inventor's mark, and the most prostitute enemy to truth, may spread a thousand without being known for the author: besides, as the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falshood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. View quote
Jonathan Swift
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. View quote
Hippocrates
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation. View quote
Hippocrates
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm. View quote
Chang-rae Lee
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait. View quote
Ernst Mayr
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will. View quote
Mao Zedong
It is a very wise rule in the conduct of the understanding, to acquire early a correct notion of your own peculiar constitution of mind, and to become well acquainted, as a physician would say, with your idiosyncrasy. View quote
Sydney Smith
The proper management of pain remains, after all, the most important obligation, the main objective, and the crowning achievement of every physician. (John Bonica)
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor. View quote
William Shakespeare
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Painting in the chamber of a Prince who was indisposed, the Physician said, that he hoped bymeans of his Highness, to obtain also the favor of a picture by Salvator. The Prince made he request, and Salvator readily consented. The Physician then desired the Painter not to egin his picture till he had given him the idea, nd the design. Salvator made no reply; ut when the Physician called for pen and ink o write his prescription, he desired him to stop ill he should tell him what to write. The Docor, not comprehending his meaning, said * Signor Salvator, this is a business which conerns me, not you." "I would have you to know Mr. Doctor" replied Salvator, " that I can more easily instruct you in the cure of your tickt than you can me in the art I profess, being a much better Painter than you are a Physician.'*. View quote
Peter Beckford
The deva asked, What causes ruin in the world? What breaks off friendships? What is the most violent fever? Who is the best physician?" The Blessed One replied, Ruin in the world is caused by ignorance; friendships are broken off by envy and selfishness; the most violent fever is hatred; the best physician is the Buddha. View quote
Paul Carus
You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with. View quote
Ben Carson
Time is the great physician. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
What is care?" asked the Princess, with a smile. "It is a god", replied the Physician, "invisible, but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse - it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair grey. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. View quote
Paracelsus
Every physician, shoemaker, mechanic or educator must know his shortcomings if he is to do his work and make his living. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. (Plato)
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. View quote
Plato
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not. View quote
Plato
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that agent and patient at once. View quote
Aristotle
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. View quote
Voltaire