Top 40 Medicine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

— Paracelsus

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2. “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

— Hippocrates

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3. “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”

— William Osler

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4. “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.”

— Hippocrates

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5. “Patience is the best medicine.”

— John Florio

6. “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”

— Hippocrates

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7. “Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.”

— Bertrand Russell

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8. “The word of God is the medicine of the heart.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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9. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

— Oliver Sacks

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10. “Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

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11. “Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.”

— Rumi

12. “Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.”

— Linus Pauling

13. “To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”

— Henry Miller

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14. “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

— Voltaire

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15. “Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

16. “The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not ‘What disease does my patient have?’ but ‘Who is my patient?’ By ‘who,’ the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.”

— Deepak Chopra

17. “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.”

— Hippocrates

18. “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”

— Thomas Paine

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19. “The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.”

— Nikola Tesla

20. “Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.”

— Carl Sagan

21. “Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.”

— John D. Rockefeller

22. “Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.”

— Hippocrates

23. “Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”

— Karl Marx

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24. “Instead of using medicine, better fast today.”

— Plutarch

25. “Physician, heal thyself.”

— Luke the Evangelist

26. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

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27. “Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.”

— Deepak Chopra

28. “The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!”

— Joyce Meyer

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29. “Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”

— Hippocrates

30. “The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body and reduce it to harmony.”

— Francis Bacon

31. “Energy is eternal delight.”

— William Blake

32. “Preventive medicine isn’t part of a physician’s everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.”

— Deepak Chopra

33. “Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.”

— Saint Augustine

34. “I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.”

— Jean Craighead George

35. “The rosary is spiritual medicine.”

— Pope Francis

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36. “Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”

— B. J. Palmer

37. “Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug.”

— Geoffrey Blainey

38. “Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

39. “If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”

— Ray Bradbury

40. “It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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