Flexner Quotes

#1. Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Abraham Flexner

#2. That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

Ernie Banks

#3. You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Abraham Flexner

#4. The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

Abraham Flexner

#5. Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung.

Tite Kubo

#6. That moment when you are standing at the edge of a life decision may be terrifying, but if you don't jump in - you'll never know!

Maggie Pajak

#7. The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

Abraham Flexner

#8. It was the silliest victory of her entire life.

Jennifer Egan

#9. We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Abraham Flexner

#10. There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

Abraham Flexner

#11. A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Abraham Flexner

#12. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Jesse Ventura

#13. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Sophie Swetchine

#14. The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Abraham Flexner

#15. I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

Natasha Lyonne

#16. If I think back on my successes, such as they are, they come as often as not from the simple exercise of putting two disparate facts together and making a weapon of them.

Mark Lawrence

#17. Wake up today and shake up the world ... It's a New Year that welcomes you to shine and make your dreams come true.-RVM

R.v.m.

#18. Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients ... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

Abraham Flexner

#19. Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Abraham Flexner

#20. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner

#21. Well, Louie, you'll know then that Leviticus also tells us not to cut our beards, not to wear linen and wool together nor to eat crayfish or frogs or snails. I'm afraid that if we adhered to Leviticus the entire French nation would be an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

Paula Boock