Medicine Quotes — Page 27

Poet

“To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.”

Philosophy Sight Medicine

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.”

Law Philosophy Medicine

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.”

Order Philosophy Medicine

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.”

World Body Medicine

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.”

Science Nature Medicine

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William Davis

Historian

“A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.”

Years Littles Medicine

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.”

Hands Medicine Rejection

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Terry Pratchett

Author

“Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.”

Oil Medicine Snakes

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Thomas A. Edison

Inventor

“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.”

Taken Discovery Medicine

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Rebecca West

Novelist, Journalist

“She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.”

Hands Doctors Medicine

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!”

People Children Medicine

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.”

Life Medicine Poison

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