Quotes about Medicine
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nature itself is the best physician.
— Hippocrates
We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.
— William Hazlitt
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
— St. Augustine
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
— Mark Twain
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
— Syncletica of Alexandria
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
— Joel Osteen