Medicine Quotes

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

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

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.