Charles Horace Mayo quotes

“Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.”
-- Charles Horace Mayo

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“In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.”
-- Charles Horace Mayo

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“Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.”
-- Charles Horace Mayo

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“May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”

“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”

“Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.”

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

“Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.”

“The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.”