“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all”

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

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”