"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.“


-George MacDonald

posted in wisdom


The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."

-George MacDonald

workView Quote
"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."

-George MacDonald

trustView Quote
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

-George MacDonald

trustView Quote
"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

-George MacDonald

sympathyView Quote
"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."

-George MacDonald

powerView Quote
"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

-George MacDonald

politicsView Quote

More Quotes About wisdom

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."

-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

wisdomView Quote
"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."

-Lord John Russell

wisdomView Quote
"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."

-Francis Hutcheson

wisdomView Quote
"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."

-Stanford Moore

wisdomView Quote
"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."

-Nina Totenberg

wisdomView Quote
"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."

-John Bigelow

wisdomView Quote