Medicine Quotes - page 2

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. View quote
Luc Besson
Walking is man's best medicine. View quote
Hippocrates
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ... View quote
J. William Fulbright
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope. View quote
William Shakespeare
The architect should also have a knowledge of the study of medicine on account of the questions of climates, air, the healthiness and unhealthiness of sites, and the use of different waters. For without these considerations the healthiness of a dwelling cannot be assured. View quote
Vitruvius
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. View quote
Andrew Weil
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. View quote
Paul Dudley White
So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine. (Franklin Raines)
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore. View quote
Virginia Johnson
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles. View quote
Alain de Botton
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. View quote
Thomas Paine
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. View quote
Robert Downey Jr.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. View quote
Peter Mere Latham
Common sense is in medicine the master workman. View quote
Peter Mere Latham
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. View quote
John Ruskin
I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it. View quote
Bernard Baruch
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay. (David Fincher)
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation. View quote
Stephen Fry
Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it. View quote
Willie Nelson
Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature. View quote
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
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