Health Quotes

1.   "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Thomas Edison, Inventor 2.   "Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities."-John R. Lee, M.D. 3.   "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." -Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) 4.   "Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition." -Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O. 5.   "The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability."-Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O. 6.   "The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way."-Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1844), Founder of Homeopathy 7.   "Man is ill because he is never still." –Paracelsus 8.   "I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food." -Linus Pauling, Ph.D., Two-time Nobel Prize Laureate 9.   "A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine." -Henry David Thoreau 10.                "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."-Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) 11.                When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless." -Herophilies, 300 B.C. 12.                "Health is the proper relationship between microcosm, which is man, and the macrocosm, which is the universe. Disease is a disruption of this relationship."-Dr. Yeshe Donden, physician to the Dalai Lama 13.                "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease."-Voltaire 14.                "The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds."-Albert Schweitzer 15.                "The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself."-John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller Foundation 16.                "No Illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated by any other means."-Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) 17.                "The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind." –Paracelsus 18.                "A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession."-Hippocrates 19.                "Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia."-Napoleon Bonaparte 20.                "Oh, the powers of nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing."-Benvenuto Cellini 21.                "The competent physician, before he attempts to give medicine to the patient, makes himself acquainted not only with the disease, but also with the habits and constitution of the sick man."-Cicero 22.                "Don't ask the doctor, ask the patient."-Yiddish proverb And finally:   "He's the best physician who know the worthlessnes of most medicines."    -Benjamin Franklin