Top 32 Martin H Fischer Quotes
#1. The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
Karl Albrecht
#2. Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
Martin H. Fischer
#3. Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.
Contemplate glory. There will be a light.
Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
Robert Frost
#4. The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer
#5. Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer
#6. I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people ... And it's got money!
Rufus Wainwright
#7. A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Martin H. Fischer
#9. I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
Martin H. Fischer
#10. A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer
#11. The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
#12. What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
Ethel Waters
#13. Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
#14. While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yanni
#15. Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
Martin H. Fischer
#17. Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Martin H. Fischer
#18. There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Otto Von Bismarck
#20. None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
Martin H. Fischer
#21. At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.
Nicole Krauss
#22. When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
Martin H. Fischer
#23. Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Martin H. Fischer
#25. You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Martin H. Fischer
#27. First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer
#28. Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
Eknath Easwaran
#29. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
#30. The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.
Conan O'Brien
#31. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
Martin H. Fischer
#32. A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer
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