Motivational Quotes

Medicine

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Medicine

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

Jewish Proverb

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Jefferson, Thomas

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Sir William Osler

10.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

11.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Mcclenahan, John L.

12.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

West, Rebecca

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Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation.

Delort, Maurice

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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

Nixon, Richard M.

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In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.

Tronchin, Theodore

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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

18.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Sir William Osler

19.

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.

Charles, Prince Of Wales

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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

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Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

26.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca

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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

Paul, Jean

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From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but thefurtherextension of the health system.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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.

Illich, Ivan

32.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

33.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Osler, Sir William

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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Billings, Josh

35.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

Sleep is better than medicine.

37.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

39.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

40.

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.

Krebs, Jr., Ernst T.

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

43.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

44.

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.

Loffler, Charles Lyman

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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? [Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5]

Bible

47.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Kocher, Gerhard

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While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.

Kent, James Tyler

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Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Garth, Sir Samuel

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia