Quotes by Physicians - Page 152

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.
Debasish Mridha
Always be friendly, always be kind,Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.
Debasish Mridha
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
Albert Schweitzer
Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.
Debasish Mridha
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.''That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Markus Herz
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Rachel Naomi Remen
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Maimonides
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Abraham Verghese
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
Edward J. Stieglitz
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!
A.J. Cronin
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Abraham Verghese
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
Anton Chekhov
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Arthur Conan Doyle
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
François Rabelais
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
Tess Gerritsen
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
Arthur Conan Doyle
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
Arthur Conan Doyle