Quotations About Medicine & Healthcare

Here is a collection of quotations regarding health and medicine from historical sources, physicians, philosophers, writers, and celebrities.

"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors."

–Jewish Proverb

"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."

–Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and physician (1875–1965)

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

–Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and physician (1875–1965)

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness ."

–Hannah Green, American writer (1927–1996)

"As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself."

–Adelle Davis, American nutritionist (1904–1974)

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

–Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (1694–1778)

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

–George Dennison Prentice, American newspaper journalist and editor (1802–1870)

"Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution."

–Jay Leno, American talk-show host (1950–)

"Be not slow to visit the sick."

–Ecclesiastes

"Health is worth more than learning."

–Thomas Jefferson, American president (1743–1826)

"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."

–Francois de la Rochefoucauld, French writer and nobleman (1613–1680)

"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

–Alice James, American diarist (1848–1892)

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

–Sir William Osler, Canadian physician (1849–1919)

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

–Mark Twain, American writer (1835–1910)

"If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors."

–Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, internet bloggers

"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."

–Thomas Szasz, American professor of psychiatry (1920–)

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