Rene Descartes Quotes

Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use.

Rene Descartes

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• Temperament
• Organs
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• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

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

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Boy
  • Writer
  • Little

• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Patience
  • Little

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • High
  • Engineering

• The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Step
  • Stronger
  • Medicine

• The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Take

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Little
  • Clean
  • Little Bit

• Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • History
  • Greatest
  • Medicine

• I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Watch
  • Little
  • Court

• We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Little

• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Equipment

• During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • School
  • Year
  • Students

• Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fall
  • Equal
  • Rise

• Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?

  

  Nancy Burson
  • People
  • Up

• And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Words
  • Prince
  • Solely

• Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Medicine
  • Little
  • Temperament