Top 35 Daniel D. Palmer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Study first, play afterwards.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

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2. “Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

3. “There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

4. “Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

5. “Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

6. “Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

7. “Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

8. “Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

9. “Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

10. “Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?”

— Daniel D. Palmer

11. “Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

12. “I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?”

— Daniel D. Palmer

13. “The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

14. “Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

15. “Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

16. “The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

17. “Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

18. “The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

19. “Chiropractic is a science just so far as it is specific.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

20. “Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

21. “Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

22. “Grief causes suffering and disease.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

23. “Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

24. “The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

25. “Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

26. “The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

27. “I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

28. “The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

29. “Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

30. “That which I named ‘innate’ is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

31. “To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

32. “The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

33. “I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

34. “I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

35. “He who obeys God’s laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.”

— Daniel D. Palmer

36. “The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.”

— Daniel D. Palmer