“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever.”
Seneca
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Medical Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · MEDICAL
Medical Quotes
Read the best medical quotes on doctors, nurses and the art of healing from Hippocrates, Avicenna, Sushruta, William Osler, Florence Nightingale and more.
“The most skilful physicians are those who, from their youth upwards, have combined with the knowledge of their art the greatest experience of disease.”
Plato
ExperienceDoctors
“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
ScienceHumility
“Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.”
Moliere
SatireMedicine
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
Voltaire
SatireDoctors
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
George Bernard Shaw
SatireProfessions
“Physician, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.”
Ambrose Bierce
DoctorsFunny
“He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.”
Thomas Fuller
WitDoctors
“This disease is beyond my practice.”
William Shakespeare
LimitsLiterature
“Trust not the physician; his antidotes are poison.”
William Shakespeare
LiteratureSatire
“Before the curing of a strong disease, even in the instant of repair and health, the fit is strongest.”
William Shakespeare
HealingLiterature
“Good medicine tastes bitter.”
Chinese Proverb
TreatmentShort Quotes
“If there is life, there is the world.”
Hindi Proverb (Jaan hai to jahaan hai)
HealthPriorities
“Food is medicine.”
Tamil Proverb (Unave marundhu)
DietShort Quotes
“Time is the great healer.”
Proverb
HealingTime
“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.”
Proverb
Natural HealingPatience
“Doctors make the worst patients.”
Proverb
DoctorsFunny
“For of the most High cometh healing.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:2)
HealingFaith
“With such doth he heal men, and taketh away their pains.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:7)
MedicineFaith
“Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:12)
DoctorsRespect
“There is a time when in their hands there is good success.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:13)
DoctorsHope
“Luke, the beloved physician.”
The Bible (Colossians 4:14)
DoctorsFaith
“And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.”
The Bible (Mark 5:26)
SufferingFaith
“Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.”
The Bible (2 Kings 20:7)
RemediesHealing
“Heal the sick. Freely ye have received, freely give.”
The Bible (Matthew 10:8)
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