Quotes by Physicians - Page 4

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
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
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
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
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
I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
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 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
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