Medicine Quotes

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.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

I sing the body electric.

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

Patience is the best medicine.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Energy is eternal delight.

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

I've always wanted to be a cardiologist. If I have time I want to study Medicine someday.

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.