Cures Quotes - Page 22

• For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Disease, Desperate

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.382, 谷月社

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• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Mad

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Knowing, Mind, Littles

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Ambition is no cure for love!

  Walter Scott

  Ambition

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”, p.9

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• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  Helen Keller

  Vanity, Mind, Vexation

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Self, Perfection

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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• Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Evil

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

  Barack Obama

  Sick, Use, Earth

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

  Moss Hart

  Earthquakes, Hollywood, Matter

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• Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

  Donald A. Norman

  Practice, Medicine, Usual

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, p. 173, 1988.

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• I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

  R. D. Laing

  Play, Numbers, Insanity

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Political, Belief

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

  George Orwell

  Sex, Fruit Juice, Feminist

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sick, Who Cares

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sleep, Next Day, Matter

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• Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Moral, Chance

  "PETA and AIDS research". Michael McGraw (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), CNS News, May 15, 2006.

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• [U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Sides, Economics

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• They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Scope

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Dangerous Situations, Risk

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• For art to be art it has to cure.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2010). “Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy”, p.225, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Long, Democracy, Would Be

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• For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

  John Calvin

  Giving, Shining, Lame

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  John Calvin

  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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