Quotes by Physicians

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
Anton Chekhov
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
François Rabelais
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
François Rabelais
I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say.
Charles F. Glassman
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
Erasmus Darwin
My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it—anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.
Charles F. Glassman
Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)
Ferrol Sams
Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.
Debasish Mridha
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?The Sixth Sense.Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.
Tess Gerritsen
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.
Jacob M. Appel
The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.
William Crawford Gorgas
You have to risk falling to be able to fly.
Debasish Mridha
The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
M. Beddow Bayly
Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.
Debasish Mridha
Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty.
Debasish Mridha
You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your right to it, and now you can't sleep, which, of course, is certainly better than if you were content, slept soundly, and thought everything was fine. Your insomnia is respectable; in any event, it's a good sign. In fact, for our parents such a conversation as we're having now would have been unthinkable; they didn't talk at night, they slept soundly, but we, our generation, sleep badly, are anguished, talk a lot, and keep trying to decide if we're right or not.- A Medical Case
Anton Chekhov
Several serious medical studies and entire referenced books show that lowering cholesterol with medications did NOT reduce the number of deaths by stroke nor the amount of sickness, including heart attacks and (Atkins, Herbert, TW, Suurbula, Ravnskov, Smith). In addition, some commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs actually lowered the good HDL cholesterol as well (Johansson), putting you at higher risk of an early heart attack.
Dr. Sherry Rogers
It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service expected the greatest results to flow from his commission of medical officers, but the conclusions of the Board turned out to be all wrong, while he did not notice the report from his own subordinate, Dr. H. R. Carter, which turned out to be pure gold and was one of the great steps in establishing the true method of the transmission of Yellow Fever.
William Crawford Gorgas
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan Doyle
To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!
Anton Chekhov
Only the forgotten are truly dead.
Tess Gerritsen
Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
Martha Moody
Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.
Jonathan Gash
[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
John Locke
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
Anton Chekhov
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
Tess Gerritsen
I believe having a vision in mind, a goal let's say, is a good thing. Unfortunately, so many of us are blinded by the greatness of our vision that paralysis and inaction sets in. What I try to do is focus on the individual steps, the moments if you will, and let them lead one to the next. The vision that eventually appears may not be exactly what you had in mind, but it will be the right one for you, because you did the work and you took the necessary action.
Charles F. Glassman
For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
Anton Chekhov
To solve your problems, stop worrying.
Debasish Mridha
Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.
John Lilly
Be a tree of love and let it bloom with flowers of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.
Debasish Mridha
Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.
Debasish Mridha
Your dreams will take you where you belong.
Debasish Mridha
Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.
Debasish Mridha
You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.
Debasish Mridha
To find the joy of life, let us love our life unconditionally.
Debasish Mridha
Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.
Debasish Mridha
To find yourself, lose yourself in search of knowledge and love.
Debasish Mridha
Embrace the god of love to keep away the evils of hatred.
Debasish Mridha
What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.
Debasish Mridha
My mission in life is not only to enjoy life, but to help others to feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
My life's message is my kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
Embrace the magnificence that is inside you.
Debasish Mridha
Love as is love is the oxygen of life.
Debasish Mridha
A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.
Debasish Mridha
To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.
Debasish Mridha
Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.
Debasish Mridha
Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.
Debasish Mridha
The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.
Debasish Mridha
Your life is nothing buy a reflection of your thoughts. Your life will only change when you change your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
When you lift up others, you rise up together.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
Measure your day by the love you are giving away.
Debasish Mridha