Medicine Quotes

Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.

~ Indra Devi

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

~ Horace Walpole

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

When you hear hoofbeats think of horses before zebras.

~ Harley S. Smyth

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

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

~ Vauvenargues

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

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

~ Thomas

I came I saw I concurred.

~ Irvine H. Page

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

~ Wilfred Trotter

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

~ Michael Moore

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

~ Hippocrates

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

~ Voltaire

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

~ Warren Buffett

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

~ Paracelsus

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

~ Abraham Verghese

Patience is the best medicine.

~ John Florio

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

~ Macklemore

Music is the medicine of the mind.

~ John A. Logan

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

~ Plutarch

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

~ Erykah Badu

Music really is our daily medicine.

~ Evelyn Glennie

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

~ Stephen Leacock

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

~ Donatella Versace

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

~ Michael K. Simpson

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

~ Andrew Weil

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

~ Jasper Carrott

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

~ Billy Graham

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

~ George Matthew Adams

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

~ Severo Ochoa

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

~ Ovid

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

~ Ivan Illich

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

~ Ramakrishna

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

~ Khaled Hosseini

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

~ Taylor Caldwell

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

~ Samuel Wilson

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

~ Gerald F. Lieberman

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

~ William Osler