Physician Quotes
-
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
Hippocrates
-
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
Plutarch
-
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
Hippocrates
-
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
Epictetus
-
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
Walker Percy
-
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
-
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
Honore de Balzac
-
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
-
I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.
Raul Ruiz
-
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
-
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
Martin Luther