Wise Doctor

Physician, heal thyself. - Luke 4:23

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom requires the long view. - John F. Kennedy

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

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Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine. - Martin H. Fischer

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. - Spanish Proverb

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay. - Marcia Carrington

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Three out of four doctors recommend another doctor. - Graffito

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. - Gerhard Kocher

Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. - George Bernard Shaw

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - WC Fields

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. - Kin Hubbard

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn

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A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. - August Bier

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. - Thomas Fuller

NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. - Mitch Hedberg

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. - Arlen Specter

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. - Peter Mere Latham

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. - William Cullen

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. - Sir Walter Raleigh

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. - African Proverb

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

The doctors can cure all sorts of ills, except the shock of doctors' bills. - Unknown

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up. - Vicki Lawrence

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to Les Folies Bergere and looks at the audience. - Mervyn Stockwood

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

It is the province of knowledge to speak. It is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Christine Lane

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras

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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. - Leonard Woolf

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

Virus is a Latin word used by doctors to mean 'your guess is as good as mine'. - Bob Hope

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson

Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful. - Dale Evans

The latest thing in psychiatry is group therapy. Instead of couches, they use bunk beds. - Henny Youngman

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. - Martin H. Fischer

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

I've just become a pensioner so I've started saving up for my own hospital trolley. - Tom Baker

The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. - E W Howe

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. - William Withey Gull

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. - Rodney Dangerfield

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. - Elizabeth Holmes

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment. - Charlie Kimball

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

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

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to know. - Will Rogers

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. - Francis Bacon

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

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

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check. - Halle Berry

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is a man who collects the rent. - Lord Webb-Johnson

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist. - Frankie Muniz