Medicine Quotes

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took th...

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must...

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a p...

Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. ...

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, ...

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academi...

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry abou...

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to...

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he w...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" le...

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime...

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get ...

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which ...

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. Th...

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. Ho...

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless re...

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and...

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and...

The body never lies.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace o...

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do tha...

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the l...

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the sa...

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, ...

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient fro...

Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to...

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plas...

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso...

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the...

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote...

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and phys...

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leav...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

Doctors is all swabs.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimat...

(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the import...

Perhaps the greatest danger in the way that alternative therapists behave is simply the promotion of...

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled...

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gast...

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 968...

The doctor looked shifty. “He’s still breathing,” he said. “Look, his pulse is nearly humming and he...

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ...

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for th...

The apothecary’s name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He’d found a...

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debase...

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise conc...

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines f...

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medici...

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they kn...