Physician Quotes

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers.

If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;

never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle.

Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe.

I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Nothing will make me change my principles.

Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity

If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors.

. . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

People always think of technology as something having silicon in it.

But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?".

.. "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses.

Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

The Obama administration has embraced the policies of George W.

Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama - $700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.

It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.