Medicine Quotes

Truth in medicine is an unattainable goal, and the art as described in books is far beneath the knowledge of an experienced and thoughtful physician.

Al - Razi

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Samuel Butler

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Hippocrates

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Elizabeth Kenny

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

Henry E. Sigerist

A man is as old as his arteries.

Thomas Sydenham

Medical education is not completed at the medical school: it is only begun.

William H. Welch