Medical quotes

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. – Hippocrates

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it. – Hippocrates

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

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. – Mark Twain

The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find. – Denis Diderot

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. – J.P. Morgan

The biggest realization I had is that there are no shortcuts in life. – Mark Wahlberg

The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The doctor sees all the weakness of man, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease. – Plutarch

Medical quotes part 2

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. – Jodi Picoult

The doctor’s name is time. – Georg Herbert

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. – Karl Marx

It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. – Hippocrates

It’s much easier to make good doctors than it is to make good patients. – Barbara Browne

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

Science without conscience is only the ruin of the soul. – Rabelais

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing. – Voltaire

The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. – Dennis S. Brown

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science. – Martin H. Fischer

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler

The doctor walks in the room, but I can’t see him anymore. – Pearl Jam

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. – Paracelsus

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

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. – Leonardo da Vinci

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. – Lao Tzu

The doctor who only knows medicine, knows not even medicine. The doctor who knows medicine and knows the patient, knows medicine. – Paracelsus

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. – Hippocrates

Doctors are not men who have immunity against error. Their talents simply lie in the direction of error. – Marcel Proust

Medicine is a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient. – Albert Schweitzer

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. – Karl Marx

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death… Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive. – Anne Wojcicki

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. – Moses Maimonides

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. – H.G. Bohn

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. – Moses Maimonides

Your medicine is in you, and you do not let it out. All things are your pharmacy. – Hippocrates

Medicine is a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient. – Albert Schweitzer

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. – Jodi Picoult

I could have been a doctor if I didn’t have such good handwriting. – Ted Turner