Physicians Quotes - Page 16

• How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

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• I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

  Hannah More

  People, Wonder, Contradiction

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.317

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• I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Graves

  St. Patrick's Day Act II, Sc. iv

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• The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Healthy, Looks

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• I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Loneliness, Home, Long

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

  Sue Sanders

  Doctors, Greed, Dying

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• There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Hands, United States, States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

  Burton J. Hendrick

  Brother, Firsts, Patient

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• Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses,
  whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch,
  patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils,
  are as great factors in the care of the sick,
  as are the professional physicians.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Girl, Nurse, Sick

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• You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doctors, Born, Bounds

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• The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doctors, Actors, Born

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• Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Art, Doctors, Grudge

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• The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Causes, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.200

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• There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

  John Donne

  Health, Neutrality, Enjoy

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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• The physician is only nature's assistant.

  Galen

  Assistants, Homeopathy

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• Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

  Robert A. Burton

  Mother, Nature, Science

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• Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Drug

  De Erroribus Medicorum

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• But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

  John Wesley

  Medicine, Disease, Sickness

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.308

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• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

  Voltaire

  Country, Law, Numbers

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• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Views

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Translations of the philosophical works”, p.68

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• They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Art, Science

  The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II

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• Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

  Voltaire

  Sleep, Exercise, Dark

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• The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

  Voltaire

  Dark, Simple, Two

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• A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

  Voltaire

  Medicine, Drug, Body

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• I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Doctors, Skills

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.317

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