Quotes by Physicians - Page 12

unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
William Carlos Williams
Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching.
Arthur Conan Doyle
A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.
Charles F. Glassman
Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.
Debasish Mridha
I wished I could paint this ineffable beauty but I had never been artistic. I hadn’t even packed a camera, and my phone was out of charge. It didn’t matter. I just breathed in the feeling, savouring it. Suddenly I knew that I’d enjoy many more moving moments and visions of beauty, and that they’d sustain me for the rest of my life.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
A great sea fog is not homogenous--its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its cliffs of solid vapour, all shifting and changing place with the subtlety of legerdemain.
Henry de Vere Stacpoole
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
William Carlos Williams
The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.
Charles F. Glassman
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
Hippocrates
Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
William James
Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.
Debasish Mridha
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
Jacob M. Appel
patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.
David Ramsay
You have to risk falling to be able to fly.
Debasish Mridha
To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.
Debasish Mridha
If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.
Debasish Mridha
To a great mind, nothing is little.
Arthur Conan Doyle
things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one, of those times, Hem. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
Spencer Johnson
When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.
Charles F. Glassman
Life moves on and so should we
Spencer Johnson
A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.
Gustave Le Bon
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do not make you feel they are conferring a great benefit on you when they live with you, and they don't make a scandal when they leave. (...)2) They have compassion for other people besides beggars and cats. Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye. (...)3) They respect other people's property, and therefore pay their debts.4) They are not devious, and they fear lies as they fear fire. They don't tell lies even in the most trivial matters. To lie to someone is to insult them, and the liar is diminished in the eyes of the person he lies to. Civilized people don't put on airs; they behave in the street as they would at home, they don't show off to impress their juniors. (...)5) They don't run themselves down in order to provoke the sympathy of others. They don't play on other people's heartstrings to be sighed over and cosseted ... that sort of thing is just cheap striving for effects, it's vulgar, old hat and false. (...)6) They are not vain. They don't waste time with the fake jewellery of hobnobbing with celebrities, being permitted to shake the hand of a drunken [judicial orator], the exaggerated bonhomie of the first person they meet at the Salon, being the life and soul of the bar ... They regard prases like 'I am a representative of the Press!!' -- the sort of thing one only hears from [very minor journalists] -- as absurd. If they have done a brass farthing's work they don't pass it off as if it were 100 roubles' by swanking about with their portfolios, and they don't boast of being able to gain admission to places other people aren't allowed in (...) True talent always sits in the shade, mingles with the crowd, avoids the limelight ... As Krylov said, the empty barrel makes more noise than the full one. (...)7) If they do possess talent, they value it ... They take pride in it ... they know they have a responsibility to exert a civilizing influence on [others] rather than aimlessly hanging out with them. And they are fastidious in their habits.
Anton Chekhov
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
Robert Koch
Luck always favors those who are bold.
Debasish Mridha
...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
M. Beddow Bayly
Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires.
Debasish Mridha
Your driving desires will determine what you become.
Debasish Mridha
Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!
Anton Chekhov
But now, if I be marching on with my utmost vigour in that way which, according to the sacred geography, leads straight to Jerusalem, why am I beaten and ill-used by others because, perhaps, I wear not buskins; because my hair is not of the right cut; because, perhaps, I have not been dipped in the right fashion; because I eat flesh upon the road, or some other food which agrees with my stomach; because I avoid certain by-ways, which seem unto me to lead into briars or precipices; because, amongst the several paths that are in the same road, I choose that to walk in which seems to be the straightest and cleanest; because I avoid to keep company with some travellers that are less grave and others that are more sour than they ought to be; or, in fine, because I follow a guide that either is, or is not, clothed in white, or crowned with a mitre?
John Locke
Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.
Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.
Debasish Mridha
Fun is never gone because life is fun.
Debasish Mridha
Never give up but never forget to grow up.
Debasish Mridha
The 6 greatest detriments to our health, happiness, and ultimate success: Regret, Worry, Guilt, Blame, Gossip, & ResentmentRemoving just one can change your life.
Charles F. Glassman
Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to change the treatment decisions of doctors: in fact, they spend twice as much on marketing and advertising as they do on the research and development of new drugs. Since we all want doctors to prescribe medicine based on evidence, and evidence is universal, there is only one possible reason for such huge spends: to distort evidence-based practice.
Ben Goldacre
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Anton Chekhov
You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.
Debasish Mridha
Happiness comes from loving and giving
Debasish Mridha
No ghosts need
Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths
Anton Chekhov
Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.
Debasish Mridha
A person with the best strategy never gets angry.
Debasish Mridha
Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.
Debasish Mridha
My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing.
Douglas Black
An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.
Debasish Mridha
Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to write a letter like Tatyana's.'I love you,' she wrote, 'but you don't love me, you don't love me!'Having written this, she laughed.She was only sixteen and had never loved anyone yet. She knew that Gorny (an army officer) and Gruzdyov (a student) were both in love with her, but now, after the opera, she wanted to doubt their love. To be unloved and miserable: what an attractive idea! There was something beautiful, touching and romantic about A loving B when B wasn't interested in A. Onegin was attractive in not loving at all, while Tatyana was enchanting because she loved greatly. Had they loved equally and been happy they might have seemed boring.("After The Theatre")
Anton Chekhov
The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.
Charles F. Glassman
What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.
Charles F. Glassman
The moon rose up that evening and shot her silver arrows at the house under the artu tree. The house was empty. Then the moon came across the sea and across the reef. She lit the lagoon to it's dark, dim heart. She lit the coral brains and sand spaces, and the fish casting their shadows on the sand and the coral. The keeper of the lagoon rose to greet her, and the fin of him broke her reflection on the mirror-like surface into a thousand glittering ripples. She saw the white staring ribs of the form on the reef. Then, peeping over the trees, she looked down into the valley, where the great stone idol had kept it's solitary vigil for five thousand years, perhaps, and more.At this base, in his shadow, looking as if under his protection, lay two human beings, naked, clasped in each other's arms and fast asleep. One could scarcely pity his vigil, had it been marked sometimes through the years by such an incident as this. The thing had been conducted just as the birds conduct their love affairs. An affair absolutely natural, absolutely blameless and without sin. A marriage according to Nature, without feasts or guests, consummated with accidental cynicism under the shadow of a religion a thousand years dead.
Henry de Vere Stacpoole
Live like a tree, giving, forgiving, and free.
Debasish Mridha
[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.'His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?'[Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it.
Blake Charlton
If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.
Charles F. Glassman
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
H. Havelock Ellis