Top Physicians Quotes Collection

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Image of John Stuart Mill
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Bonaventure
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
- Bonaventure
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Image of Herophilos
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
- Herophilos
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Image of William James Mayo
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
- William James Mayo
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Image of Hippocrates
The physician treats, but nature heals.
- Hippocrates
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Image of Hester Lynch Piozzi
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Image of Rudolf Virchow
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
- Rudolf Virchow
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Image of Rudolf Virchow
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
- Rudolf Virchow
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Image of Galen
The physician is only nature's assistant.
- Galen
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Image of Galen
The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Galen
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Image of Caldwell Esselstyn
As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.
- Caldwell Esselstyn
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Image of Ihara Saikaku
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
- Ihara Saikaku
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Image of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Image of Josiah Bartlett
Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.
- Josiah Bartlett
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Image of Henry Howarth Bashford
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
- Henry Howarth Bashford
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Image of Harriot Kezia Hunt
The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
- Harriot Kezia Hunt
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Image of Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
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Image of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Image of William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
- William Osler
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Image of Abraham Verghese
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
- Abraham Verghese
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Image of Otto von Bismarck
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
- Otto von Bismarck
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Image of Andrew Weil
More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.
- Andrew Weil
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of William Osler
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
- William Osler
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Image of William J. H. Boetcker
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Benjamin Rush
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
- Benjamin Rush
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Image of William C. Bryant
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
- William C. Bryant
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Image of Hippocrates
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
- Hippocrates
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Image of Hippocrates
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
- Hippocrates
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Image of Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The purse of the patient often protracts his case.
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Image of Plato
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all
- Plato
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Image of Ogden Nash
The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.
- Ogden Nash
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Image of Epictetus
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
- Epictetus
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Image of John Heywood
Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
- John Heywood
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Image of George Herbert
The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
- George Herbert
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of Charles Lamb
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
- Charles Lamb
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Physicians