Disease Quotes

• I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Eye
  • Illness

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Close
  • Diagnosed
  • Misconceptions

• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  

  Maimonides
  • Disease
  • Diet
  • Other

• Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels - emotional, spiritual and physical.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Healing

• To think too much is a disease.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Think
  • Disease

• 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.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Important
  • Familiar

• And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Time
  • Physicians
  • Passes

• I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Social
  • Represent
  • Pentagon

• What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Disease
  • Doctor

• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • War
  • Government
  • Lifetime

• The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Man
  • Disease

• Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Evil
  • Disease
  • Laziness

• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Disease
  • Aid
  • Clever Woman

• Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Disease
  • Dislike
  • Discussed

• Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

  

  Euripides
  • Poverty
  • Disease
  • Teaches

• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  

  G. Frank Lawlis
  • Minds
  • Joys
  • Humankind

• Despair often breeds disease.

  

  Sophocles
  • Disease
  • Despair
  • Breeds

• 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.

  

  Plato
  • Mistake
  • Treatment
  • Physicians

• Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Lies
  • Disease
  • Bigotry

• Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Society
  • Mean
  • Voice

• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Society
  • Movement
  • Evolution

• The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Health
  • Principles
  • Lifting

• Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Ignorance
  • Idleness
  • Reconstruction

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