Disease Quotes

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

Paul Dudley White
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Seneca the Younger

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

William Lyon Phelps
- Disease
- Century
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Terence McKenna
- Disease
- Alcoholism
We can hope to solve the problems of these children only if we correctly define what is going on with them and do more than developing new drugs to control them or trying to find “the” gene that is responsible for their “disease.” The challenge is to find ways to help them lead productive lives and, in so doing, save hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. That process starts with facing the facts.

Bessel van der Kolk
- Children
- Problems
- Drugs
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Peace
- Disease
- Ring
If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

Gautama Buddha
- Heart
- Knowledge
- Ocean
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

Paul Polman