Quotes by Physicians - Page 5

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
To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer
I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.
John H. Knowles
Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.
Lewis Thomas
In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.
Theodore Tronchin
I came I saw I concurred.
Irvine H. Page
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.
Samuel Bard
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.
Alphonse Raymond Dochez
Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fisher
Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.
Haven Emerson
The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
Herbert Ratner
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
Anton Chekhov
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
Silas W. Mitchell
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Dr. Thomas Bowdler
Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.
Anton Chekhov
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.
John Locke
One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
Albert Schweitzer
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
Law is a bottomless pit.
J. Arbuthnot
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
François Rabelais
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
Martin H. Fisher
This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
William Watson
When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood God blessed the green island he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world the most precious stone.
William Drennan
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
William James
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
Systems die instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James