Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
pain nursing looks
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
nursing men doctors
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
nursing tea get-better
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
art nursing nurse
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
health nursing reality
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
health recovery mean
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
recovery mean healing
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
diversity heaven kingdoms
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
god nursing purpose
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
mind church unseen
Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
organization world permit
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
people few-words schemes
... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
want moral states
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
home wind law
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?