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Science Quotes by Chinese Proverb (19 quotes)

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Age (509)  |  Disease (340)  |  Seek (218)

Before you tell the ‘truth’ to the patient, be sure you know the ‘truth’ and that the patient wants to hear it.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Hear (144)  |  Know (1538)  |  Patient (209)  |  Tell (344)  |  Truth (1109)  |  Want (504)

For colic, get the bowels open.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Bowel (17)  |  Colic (3)  |  Illness (35)  |  Open (277)

He that takes medicine and neglects to diet himself wastes the skill of the physician.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Diet (56)  |  Himself (461)  |  Medicine (392)  |  Neglect (63)  |  Physician (284)  |  Skill (116)  |  Waste (109)

However strong a mother may be, she becomes afraid when she is pregnant for the third time.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Become (821)  |  Fear (212)  |  Mother (116)  |  Pregnancy (9)  |  Strong (182)  |  Time (1911)

If a child is constantly sick, it is due to overfeeding.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Child (333)  |  Due (143)  |  Food (213)  |  Illness (35)  |  Sick (83)

In typhoid treat the beginning; in consumption do not treat the end.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Beginning (312)  |  Consumption (16)  |  Disease (340)  |  Do (1905)  |  End (603)  |  Typhoid (7)

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Easy (213)  |  Hard (246)  |  Prescription (18)  |  Remedy (63)  |  Single (365)  |  Thousand (340)

Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Cure (124)  |  Death (406)  |  Fate (76)  |  Man (2252)  |  Medicine (392)

Nine out of every ten men have piles.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Piles (7)

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Disease (340)  |  Doctor (191)  |  Good (906)  |  Himself (461)  |  Man (2252)  |  Never (1089)  |  Physician (284)  |  Sick (83)

Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Art (680)  |  Benefit (123)  |  Enable (122)  |  Healing (28)  |  Himself (461)  |  Name (359)  |  Other (2233)  |  Physician (284)  |  Time (1911)

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Appearance (145)  |  Arrow (22)  |  Disappearance (28)  |  Disease (340)  |  Slow (108)  |  Thread (36)  |  Treatment (135)

The body may be healed but not the mind.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Body (557)  |  Healing (28)  |  Mind (1377)

The patient has two sleeves, one containing a diagnostic and the other a therapeutic armamentarium; these sleeves should rarely be emptied in one move; keep some techniques in reserve; time your manoeuvres to best serve the status and special needs of your patient.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Armamentarium (3)  |  Best (467)  |  Diagnosis (65)  |  Move (223)  |  Other (2233)  |  Patient (209)  |  Reserve (26)  |  Special (188)  |  Status (35)  |  Technique (84)  |  Therapy (14)  |  Time (1911)  |  Treatment (135)  |  Two (936)

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb. In North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports (1925-1926) (1926), 292, 305.
Science quotes on:  |  Actual (118)  |  Attend (67)  |  Doctor (191)  |  Impending (5)  |  Inferior (37)  |  Medicine (392)  |  Mediocre (14)  |  Physician (284)  |  Prevent (98)  |  Sickness (26)  |  Superior (88)  |  Treat (38)

The unlucky doctor treats the head of a disease; the lucky doctor its tail.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Disease (340)  |  Doctor (191)  |  Luck (44)  |  Physician (284)

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Certain (557)  |  Certainty (180)  |  Comfort (64)  |  Diagnosis (65)  |  Ridiculous (24)  |  Uncertain (45)

When a disease relapses there is no cure.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
Science quotes on:  |  Cure (124)  |  Disease (340)  |  Relapse (5)


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