Medicine Quotes

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

Music really is our daily medicine.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

Health requires healthy food.

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

I'm so mean I make medicine sick!

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

The best doctors give the least medicines

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.