Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old physician quotes, physician sayings, and physician proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.William Osler
0
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
0
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.William Osler
0
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.Patch Adams
0
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.Harvey Cushing
0
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.Ami Bera
0
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.Hippocrates
0
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.Thomas Fuller
0
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.Benjamin Franklin
0
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.Voltaire
0
The true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere money-maker.Plato
0
Physicians of all men are most happy; what good success they have, the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.Francis Quarles
0
A young physician fattens the churchyard.French Proverb
0
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.Arateus of Cappadocia
0
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.Aristotle
0
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.Paracelsus
0
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mindPetronius
0
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vinesFrank Lloyd Wright
0
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglassHester Lynch Piozzi
0
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson
0
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible. Herophilos
0
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.Samuel Butler
0
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
0
A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.Marcus Tullius Cicero