Motivational Quotes

Medicine

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Medicine

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Sleep is better than medicine.

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

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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

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

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

Seneca

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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Jewish Proverb

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God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

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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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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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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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

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

Sir William Osler

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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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They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Nightingale, Florence

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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

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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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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Shakespeare, William

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