Medicine Quotes - Page 11

• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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• My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

  Zach Braff

  Mother, Dad, Lawyer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Simple, Two, Qigong

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Hands, Soma

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• With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

  David Hoffman

  Profound, People, Use

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Care

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Perfect, Degrees, Trials

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• Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

  Howard Stern

  Heart, Sick, Community

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• The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

  Nikola Tesla

  Rose, Rays, Scent

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Advice

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• I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  People, Suffering, Use

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• I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stress, Philosophy, Real

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• The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Order, Moles

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Tape

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Years, Ideas, Wrong Ideas

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• Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Meditation, Soul

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, People, Sick

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• We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Brain, Soma

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.18, Basic Books

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• The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pulse, Physicians, Letters

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• Mirth is God's medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Mirth

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Easy, Legislation, Harm

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.219

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• It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Everyday, World

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社

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• I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

  Robert Jarvik

  Practice, Careers, Medical Science

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• Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

  Robert Jarvik

  Dad, Doctors, Glad

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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