Hippocrates
Physician
"The physician treats, but nature heals."
Physicians quotes
Physicians
280 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"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."
Plato
Philosopher
"The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!"
Socrates
Philosopher
"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"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)."
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"The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings"
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"It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician."
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"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
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"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."
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"Nature itself is the best physician."
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"One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same."
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"As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad."
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"Physicians are many in title but very few in reality."
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"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
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"The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves."
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"The patient must combat the disease along with the physician."
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"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct."
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"Only the wounded physician heals."
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"Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh."
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"Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves."
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"I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable."
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"The sun - my almighty physician."
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"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"
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"The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease."
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"Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid."
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