Quotes About Nosology

#1. The first action of my life was the taking hold of my nose with both hands. My mother saw this and called me a genius:-my father wept for joy and presented me with a treatise on Nosology. This I mastered before I was breeched.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#3. I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Alan Rickman

#4. The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

Carl Elliott

#5. In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

Rich Hall

#6. Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes ... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

Noam Chomsky

#7. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.

Charles Simic

#8. I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

Phil Harris

#9. To win the heart of men, always be yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. To record merely patients' symptoms without considering their subjective and cultural experiences should never be the basis for diagnosis.

Man Cheung Chung

#11. It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.

John Fowles