Disease Quotes - Page 5

• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  Alice Hamilton

  Illinois, Occupation, Legislation

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Thinking, Trying, Accepting

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

  Harold Brodkey

  Real, Miracle, Events

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• I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

  Jim Doyle

  Children, Suffering, Important

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• But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.

  Dan Lipinski

  Cells, Blood, Great Day

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• The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

  Giorgio Baglivi

  Science, Mind, Causes

  Introduction to De Praxi Medica

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• Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Intelligent, Men

  Hippocrates (1979). “Hippocrates”

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• There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Cures, Theory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Sickness, Ventilation

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

  Daniel Nathans

  Mutation, Firsts, Genes

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• We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Health, Thinking, Development

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• The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Citizens, Body

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• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  Ramakrishna

  House, Soul, Body

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  John Ruskin

  Photography, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Want, Hypothyroidism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

  Mother Teresa

  Suffering, Realizing, Unloved

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• Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

  Thomas Sydenham

  God

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.68

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• Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  Eve Curie

  Science, Animal, Scent

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• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

  Serge Lang

  People, Courses, Dies

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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• As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

  Adelle Davis

  Motivational, Health, Two

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

  Edvard Munch

  Angel, Artist, Insanity

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• Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

  Arnold Sommerfeld

  Children, Childhood, Youth

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• Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

  Hans Zinsser

  Adventure, World, Genuine

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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