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
vanity filling-up want
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
nursing vanity selfishness
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
god measure purpose study thoughts understand
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose
nursing light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
may world birth
Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.
children flower fall
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
passion atmosphere would-be
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
war satisfaction paper
do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
school soul physicians
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
fancy conversation companion
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
science average data
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
heaven kingdoms circumstances
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
nursing nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.