Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Peter Mere Latham

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.

Disease | Nature | Wisdom |

Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Death | Disease | Life | Life | Wisdom |

Babe Paley, fully Barbara Cushing "Babe" Mortimer Paley

The common course of things is in favor of happiness. Happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.

Attention | Disease | Health | Order | Rule | Wisdom | Happiness |

Novalis, pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg NULL

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure, a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Disease | Wisdom | Talent |

William Osler, fully Sir William Osler

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Disease | Important | Wisdom |

Thomas Paine

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the least push that one or the other takes the lead.

Danger | Disease | Wisdom | Danger |

Paul Pearsall

All disease is brain disease... Only when the immune system is viewed as a world system will disease be reduced.

Disease | System | Will | Wisdom | World |

Norm Shealy, fully Dr. C. Norman Shealy

The greatest deficit in academic medicine is that it has generally failed to approach the problem of preventing disease or health promotion.... we are too busy taking care of people with disease to be bothered with preventing it.

Care | Disease | Health | People | Wisdom |

Robert James Turnbull

Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization - the dim night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

Age | Civilization | Darkness | Day | Disease | Doubt | Faith | Intelligence | Light | Price | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |

Willem Ernst Wunder

Clearly, if disease is man-made, it can also be man-prevented. It should be the function of medicine to help people die young as late in life as possible.

Disease | Life | Life | Man | People | Wisdom |

Mourning Dove or Christal Quintasket, aka Mourning Dove Salish and Christine Quintasket NULL

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

Disease | Earth | Existence | Mission | Purpose | Purpose |

Charles Dyer

Man’s disease is loneliness; God’s is progress.

Disease | God | Loneliness | Man | Progress |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Disease | Fear | Men |

Longinus, fully Gaius Cassius Longinus NULL

Love of pleasure is the disease which makes men most despicable.

Disease | Love | Men | Pleasure |

Charles Pierre Péguy

When a man lies dying, he does not die from disease alone. He dies from his whole life.

Disease | Life | Life | Man |