Medicine Quotes

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John L. Mcclenahan

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

Chinese Proverbs

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence

James Bryce

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Dr. Carl Sagan

In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

Dr. Sara Murray Jordan

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents

Peter Mere Latham

Walking is man's best medicine

Hippocrates

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Gerhard Kocher

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.

Dr. Joel J. Nobel

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Benjamin Franklin

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Mark Twain