William James Mayo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
-- William James Mayo

#Ideas #Medicine #Needs
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
-- William James Mayo

#People #Physicians #Type
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
-- William James Mayo

#Physicians #Examination #Fingers
The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
-- William James Mayo

#Moving #Medicine #Clouds
Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.
-- William James Mayo

#Dream #Science #Vision
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
-- William James Mayo

#Teacher #Science #Experience
Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.
-- William James Mayo

#Science #Numbers #Pet

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
You don't need vision to be a visionary.

William James Mayo famous quotes

You may also like: