Quotes by Physicians - Page 3

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
William James
Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.
Austin O'Malley
If you want a quality act as if you already had it.
William James
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
Orison Swett Marden
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
William James
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
John Lilly
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.
Jonathan Miller
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James
For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Georges Clémenceau
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
William James
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
John Locke
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.
François Rabelais
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
François Rabelais
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
Alcmaeon
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Nature abhors a vacuum.
François Rabelais
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
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
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes