Medicine Quotes

Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ā ā kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.