1. “Laughter is the music of life.”
2. “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
3. “The foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
4. “The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
5. “The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.”
6. “A person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.”
7. “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
8. “In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
9. “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
10. “The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
11. “Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.”
12. “The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
13. “Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith.”
14. “There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.”
15. “The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.”
16. “It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”
17. “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
18. “Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”
19. “The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.”
20. “One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
