Medical quotes
To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. – Hippocrates
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire
The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it. – Hippocrates
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. – Paracelsus
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. – Mark Twain
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find. – Denis Diderot
Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. – J.P. Morgan
The biggest realization I had is that there are no shortcuts in life. – Mark Wahlberg
The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The doctor sees all the weakness of man, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease. – Plutarch
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. – Jodi Picoult
The doctor’s name is time. – Georg Herbert
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. – Karl Marx
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. – Hippocrates
It’s much easier to make good doctors than it is to make good patients. – Barbara Browne
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates
Science without conscience is only the ruin of the soul. – Rabelais
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing. – Voltaire
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. – Dennis S. Brown
In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science. – Martin H. Fischer
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler
The doctor walks in the room, but I can’t see him anymore. – Pearl Jam
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. – Paracelsus
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. – William Osler
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. – Leonardo da Vinci
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. – Lao Tzu
The doctor who only knows medicine, knows not even medicine. The doctor who knows medicine and knows the patient, knows medicine. – Paracelsus
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. – Hippocrates
Doctors are not men who have immunity against error. Their talents simply lie in the direction of error. – Marcel Proust
Medicine is a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient. – Albert Schweitzer
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. – Karl Marx
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire
The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death… Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive. – Anne Wojcicki
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. – Moses Maimonides
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. – H.G. Bohn
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. – Moses Maimonides
Your medicine is in you, and you do not let it out. All things are your pharmacy. – Hippocrates
Medicine is a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient. – Albert Schweitzer
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. – Jodi Picoult
I could have been a doctor if I didn’t have such good handwriting. – Ted Turner