“The best physician is also a philosopher” - Galen
“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot, if you can heal the patient with food” - Hippocrates
“The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it” - Hippocrates
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates
“Walking is man's best medicine” - Hippocrates
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health” - Hippocrates
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease” - Hippocrates
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm” - Hippocrates
“To do nothing is also a good remedy” - Hippocrates
“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases” - Hippocrates
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses” - Hippocrates
“If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it” - Richard Feynman
“The statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty” - Richard Feynman
“If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it!” - Richard Feynman
“We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself!” - Richard Feynman
“What I cannot create, I do not understand” - Richard Feynman
“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe” - Richard Feynman
“Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings” - Richard Feynman
“Regimen is superior to medicine” - Voltaire
“The art of medicine consists in amusing patients while nature cures the disease” - Voltaire
“The multitude of books is making us ignorant” - Voltaire
“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it” - Voltaire
“Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing” - Voltaire
“For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect” - Dr. Carl C. Pfeiffer
““The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness” - Chinese Proverb
“As I see it, every day you do one of the two things: build health or produce disease in yourself” - Adelle Davis
“We are indeed much more than we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more that what we are” - Adelle Davis
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” - Marcus Aurelius
“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is well to be up before the daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom” - Aristotle
“Nature does nothing uselessly” - Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit” - Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work” - Aristotle
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory” - Albert Schweitzer
“Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside” - Albert Schweitzer
“The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!” - Plato
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure” - Lao Tzu
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“The remedy for people of the future age of great confusion lies in the ancient knowledge of the integral way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation. The holistic way of life practiced by the ancient sages incorporated body, mind and spirit as a whole in all activities. Their clothing, diet and dwellings were in accord with nature. They relied on their limbs for transportation. Their education was broad and comprehensive; it did not emphasize one element of their being while neglecting the others. They did not seek out special activities for recreation; their work and recreation were one and the same…” - Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, Chapter 43 (Translated by Hua-Ching Ni – The Complete Works of Lao Tzu)
“The people of the future should not blindly accept the new or blindly reject the old. Things that were developed long ago may still have great value if they have been proven safe and effective by the test of time. The new inventions that will appear may seem to be short cuts, but things of temporal convenience will bring hidden troubles later...” - Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, Chapter 43 (Translated by Hua-Ching Ni – The Complete Works of Lao Tzu)
