“Given one well-trained physician of the highest type, he will do better work for 100 people than 10 specialists.”
-William James Mayo
Category Archives: Philosophers & Physicians
Week 1026
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other is perpetual.”
-Socrates
Week 1018
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living and the dead know it not.”
-Xenophon
Week 1016
“The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time.”
-Antiphon
Week 1014
“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”
-Carl Jung
Week 1012
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
-Plato
Week 1008
“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Week 1007
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
-Bertrand Russell
Week 1004
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
-Haruki Murakami.
Week 1001
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Week 997
“And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Week 986
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
-Heraclitus
Week 981
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
-Carl Jung
Week 979
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Week 976
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.”
-Carl Jung
Week 969
“The measure of a man is what he does with his power.”
-Plato
Week 965
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Week 953
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of a fool.”
-Epicurus
Week 951
“Where does a thought go when it is forgotten.”
-Sigmund Freud
Week 941
“It is not enough to know how to conquer; one must know how to seduce.”
-Voltaire
Week 939
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
-Seneca
Week 935
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
-Voltaire
Week 927
“Set thy heart upon thy work but never on its reward.”
-Vyasa
Week 924
“My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me. How comfortable one is around murderers.”
-Emil Cioran
Week 919
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
-Baruch Spinoza