Top 9 Quotes by Richard Clarke Cabot

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Health, Medicine, Physicians

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Science, Hands, Needs

The Meaning of Right and Wrong, Introduction

Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Winning, Men, Self

Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Sleep, Body, Spirit

Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”

Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Appreciation, Work, Appreciate

Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”

Out of many shared years. One life.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Years, Year One

Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”

I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Believe, Drug, Useless