Quotes by Physicians - Page 7

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.
Alfred Mercier
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
William James
Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
S. Weir Mitchell
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
A.J. Cronin
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
William James
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as they will by the roadside expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.
Spencer M. Free
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Sir Thomas Browne
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.
François Rabelais
Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
John McCrae
We have here other fish to fry.
François Rabelais
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
William James
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Havelock Ellis
Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith is the only known cure for fear.
Lena K. Sadler
Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden
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
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clémenceau
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
John Locke
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clémenceau
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
Georges Clémenceau
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Alvan L. Barach
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
François Rabelais
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People often say that in a democracy decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
Walter H. Judd
When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.
William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
Frangois Rabelais
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Thomas Browne