Quotes by Physicians - Page 2

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Martin H. Fischer
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conciseness is the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
William James
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I use the word spirituality I don't necessarily mean religion I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
Dean Ornish
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
François Rabelais
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
François Rabelais
If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.
Dr. Melvin Konner
Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious rewarded and ready for more.
Alex Comfort
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Sir Thomas Browne
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
Axel Munthe
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.
Elizabeth Blackwell
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Alex Comfort
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.
William James
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
William James
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
Seek out that particular mental attitude 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
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.
Mariano Azuela
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
Alex Comfort
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.
Jonathan Miller
Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.
Sir Thomas Browne
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith
A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O'Malley
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.
H. Jack Geiger
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith