Quotes by Physicians - Page 6

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Emily Blackwell
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
William James
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
William James
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Havelock Ellis
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
Albert Schweitzer
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Orison Swett Marden
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
A.J. Cronin
There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
John Armstrong
Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.
John Armstrong
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
William James
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
Austin O'Malley
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas Browne
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Baroness Edith Summerskill
Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.
Orison Swett Marden
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
Maria Montessori
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
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
The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
William H. Sheldon
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff
Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
Anton Chekhov
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
William James
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
William James
Above all am I convinced of the need irrevocable and inescapable of every human heart for God. No matter how we try to escape to lose ourselves in restless seeking we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
A.J. Cronin
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William James
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
Axel Munthe
God when he makes the prophet does not unmake the man.
John Locke
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
William James
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William James
To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James