Physicians Quotes - Page 3

• I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

  Rebecca Lee Crumpler

  Opportunity, Suffering Of Others, African American

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• Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Taken, Food, Thinking

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• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Motivation

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• The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Women, Males, Needs

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• I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

  Charles R. Drew

  Army, Race, Views

  "One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew" by Spencie Love, (pp. 155-156), 1996.

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Education, Color, Justice

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• I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.

  Antonia Novello

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Independent

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Food, Important, Labels

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

  William Harvey

  Knowledge, Knowing, All That Remains

  "Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology".

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• Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

  Samuel Gridley Howe

  Wisdom, Thinking, Important

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Mistake, Errors, Punishment

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• Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

  Frederick Banting

  Burdens Of Life, Medicine, May

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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• Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

  Bruce Kovner

  Doctors, Analysis, Attention

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  Alexander Lowen

  Life, Freedom, Moving

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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  For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Learning, Class

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Used, Standing, Wronged

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• If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

  Robert Koch

  Inspirational, Success, Lying

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• The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

  Paul Broca

  Inspire, Assuming, Assumption

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• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  Benjamin Rush

  Religious, Time, Art

  Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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