77 Best Medicine Quotes That Heal More Than the Body

1. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

2. “It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” – William Osler

3. “Patience is the best medicine.” – John Florio

4. “Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.” – Petr Skrabanek

5. “Medicine is only for those who cannot imagine doing anything else.” – Luanda Grazette

6. “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” – William Osler

7. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

8. “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.” – Hippocrates

9. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas A. Edison

10. “Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” – Ovid

11. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

12. “Happiness lies first of all in health.” – George William Curtis

13. “Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.” – Rumi

14. “It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi

15. “Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.” – Andy Borowitz

16. “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” – Hippocrates

17. “Drugs are not always necessary; belief in recovery always is.” – Norman Cousins

18. “Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.” – Bertrand Russell

19. “What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.” – Hippocrates

20. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

21. “Walking is a man’s best medicine.” – Hippocrates

22. “He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.” – George Bernard Shaw

23. “Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

24. “He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.” – Thomas Fuller

25. “Failure is not fatal, and success is not final: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Martin Luther King

26. “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” – Publilius Syrus

27. “Never give up on anybody; miracles happen every day.”H. Jackson Brown Jr.

28. “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love for humanity.” – Hippocrates

29. “I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.” – Debi Thomas

30. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”- Theodore Roosevelt

31. “Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.” – Wernher von Braun

32. “Medicine also disregards national boundaries.” – Irving Langmuir

33. “To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.” – Henry Miller

34. “A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.” – Groucho Marx

35. “From caring comes courage.” – Lao Tzu

36. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

37. “Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.” – Deepak Chopra

38. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

39. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

40. “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.” – William Osler

41. “Your body hears everything your mind says.” – Naomi Judd

42. “The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away.”Shakespeare

43. “The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.” – Samuel Hahnemann

44. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.” – Rumi

45. “A merry heart is good like a medicine.” – Joel Osteen

46. “There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman’s pulse.” – Laurence Sterne

47. “Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.” – Linus Pauling

48. “Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.” – Karl Marx

49. “The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.” – William Osler

50. “The word of God is the medicine of the heart.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib

51. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

52. “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” – Lord Byron

53. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”- Albert Einstein

54. “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” – William Osler

55. “He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

56. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

57. “The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.” – Nikola Tesla

58. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.” – Oliver Sacks

59. “Medicine for the soul.” – Diodorus Siculus

60. “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art.” – Paracelsus

61. “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” – Thomas Paine

62. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill

63. “A fit, healthy body—that’s the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott

64. “Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.” – John D. Rockefeller

65. “The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.” – Carolyn Jarvis

66. “Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.” – Carl Sagan

67. “Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

68. “There is no medicine like hope.” – Orison Swett Marden

69. “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” – Voltaire

70. “A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” – Thomas Jefferson

71. “Fasting reveals strength in spirit.” – Rumi

72. “The best doctor gives the least medicines.” – Benjamin Franklin

73. “The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!” – Joyce Meyer

74. “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.” – Hippocrates

75. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

76. “Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.” – James Bryce

77. “Drugs are not always necessary; belief in recovery always is.” – Norman Cousins

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