Physicians Quotes - Page 18

• Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel

  Courage, Soul, Humans

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• It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.

  Abram Hoffer

  Years, Medicine, Essentials

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• Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Sleep, Mind

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strength, Prayer, Real

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• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.

  Thomas Adams

  Heart, Eye, Ahab

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• The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

  Daniel Nathans

  Glimpse, Frailty, Humans

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• Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

  George H. W. Bush

  Christian, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Reality, Errors

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• Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

  Sophocles

  Anger, Drug, Disease

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• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Retirement, Healthy, Wish

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Lying, Dancing

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• The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

  Thomas Boston

  Law, Disease

  Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.567

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• Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

  Candace Pert

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

  Philip Showalter Hench

  Years, Medicine, Today

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• This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

  Albert Claude

  Mother, Appreciation, Agony

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• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Water, Dying

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• Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Healing, Cures, Fees

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• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  Dale Carnegie

  Worry, Patient, Cures

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  School, Simple, Long Ago

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• Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Smell, Order

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• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  Aristotle

  Art, Nature, Men

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

  Philip Yancey

  Kids, School, Careers

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.38, Zondervan

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• Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Disease, Labeling

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• The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

  Patch Adams

  Suffering, Roles, Clown

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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