Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Mother Teresa

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

Quintilian

Medicine for the dead is too late

Prince Charles

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Terry Gilliam

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

Mehmet Oz

Medicine has always been my calling.

Mehmet Oz

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Michel de Montaigne

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Michel de Montaigne

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Milan Kundera

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

Jose Rizal

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

John Florio

Patience is the best medicine.

John Fletcher

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Jonas Salk

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

John Henry Newman

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

John Dewey

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

John Calvin

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

John Calvin

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

John Berger

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

Joel Fuhrman

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Joel Fuhrman

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

Eric Topol

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

Eric Topol

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Livy

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Lord Byron

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Mahatma Gandhi

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Oliver Sacks

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Oliver Sacks

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

O. Henry

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.