Quotes by Physicians - Page 121

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.
Debasish Mridha
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.
Paracelsus
One hour a day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits and profitably employed would enable any man of ordinary capacity to master a complete science. One hour a day would in ten years make an ignorant man a well-informed man…In an hour a day, a boy or girl could read twenty pages thoughtfully—over seven thousand pages, or eighteen large volumes in a year. An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existence and useful, happy living. An hour a day might make—nay, has made—an unknown man a famous one, a useless man a benefactor to his race.
Orison Swett Marden
I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!
Arthur Conan Doyle
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
S. Weir Mitchell
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.
Debasish Mridha
Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind.
Debasish Mridha
Art might be beautiful even though the artist is not.
Debasish Mridha
Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind’s eye and touch it through my heart.
Debasish Mridha
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.
Norman Bethune
To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
William Carlos Williams
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury).
Paul Tournier
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Anton Chekhov
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
You are never too old or too young to be a leader.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
The highest goal of a leader is to help others fulfill their purposes in life.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
You are a true leader if you help others to grow as leaders.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
My dear Gorgas,Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, ReedDr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.
William Crawford Gorgas
Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.
William Crawford Gorgas
A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
Debasish Mridha
You can’t be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.
Debasish Mridha
If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
Debasish Mridha
I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.
Debasish Mridha
Integrity is the ultimate foundation of leadership.
Debasish Mridha
You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.
Debasish Mridha
Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.
Debasish Mridha
To be a real leader, serve with love.
Debasish Mridha
Be the leader, not the boss.
Debasish Mridha
A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.
Debasish Mridha
[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.
Blake Charlton
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy.
Debasish Mridha
Your smile is a flower of your joyful soul.
Debasish Mridha
We are made of spirit, mind, soul, and a little pixie dust.
Debasish Mridha
Life is a dancing mind, loving heart, caring soul, and wandering thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy
Debasish Mridha
It is always a joyful spring when your heart can dance and your soul can sing.
Debasish Mridha
Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy.
Debasish Mridha
Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.
Debasish Mridha
Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul.
Debasish Mridha
Only from the soul can you see the magic.
Debasish Mridha
A smile is a reflection of the simplicity of the soul.
Debasish Mridha
Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.
Debasish Mridha
In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.
Debasish Mridha
We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe. If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy.
Christiane Northrup
You should recognize that man’s soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, may be compared to matter, and that the power of reasoning is its completed form. As long as the soul lies dormant and does not acquire its form from knowledge, then the nature of the soul is useless and exists in vain.
Maimonides
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
Anton Chekhov
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
Beauty is the expression of passion of life.
Debasish Mridha
Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.
Debasish Mridha