Cures Quotes - Page 27

• In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Disease, Desperate

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.382, 谷月社

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• If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Knowing, Mind, Littles

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Ambition is no cure for love!

  Walter Scott

  Ambition

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”, p.9

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• Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Self, Perfection

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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• Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Evil

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Political, Belief

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sick, Who Cares

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sleep, Next Day, Matter

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• They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Scope

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• For art to be art it has to cure.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2010). “Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy”, p.225, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Long, Democracy, Would Be

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• I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.

  Abraham J. Twerski

  Lying, Addiction, Doe

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• I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Exercise, Goal, Political

  "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.

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• We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

  Eva LaRue

  Giving Up, Cancer, Recovery

  Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

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• For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Headache, Guillotine

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• Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Perspective, People, Rejection

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• There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.

  Garth Hudson

  New York, Healing, Evil People

  "The Last Waltz". Documentary, Music, 1978.

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• Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

  George Takei

  Cat, Winning, Trying

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• I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

  Marisa Miller

  Stupid, Cancer, Let It Go

  "Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel Make Maxim's Hot List". people.com. May 14, 2008.

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• He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.

  George Ohsawa

  Pain, Teaching, Thinking

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 81, 1994.

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• The cure to information overload is more information.

  David Weinberger

  Information, Information Overload, Overload

  "The Cure to Information Overload Is More Information". Hyperorg.com, May 24, 2005.

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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