
“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently”
Source: Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents
A collection of quotes on the topic of patient, doing, use, other.
“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently”
Source: Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
Gottfried to Jean-Christophe. Part 3: Ada
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Youth (1904)
“Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.”
Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
Source: The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
Speech from the Sixth Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg (September 8th, 1934), quoted in Hitler: speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 - Volume 2 - Page 533 https://books.google.com/books?id=a9dVAAAAYAAJ&q=What+a+man+sacrifices+in+struggling+for+his+Volk,+a+woman+sacrifices+in+struggling+to+preserve+this+Volk+in+individual+cases&dq=What+a+man+sacrifices+in+struggling+for+his+Volk,+a+woman+sacrifices+in+struggling+to+preserve+this+Volk+in+individual+cases&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8id_w8-TWAhXIRSYKHSn5CV0Q6AEILDAB
1930s
Chap. 11 (Psychotherapists or the Clergy), p. 229 http://books.google.com/books?id=mAsPAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Among+all+my+patients+in+the+second+half+of+life+that+is+to+say+over+thirty+five+there+has+not+been+one+whose+problem+in+the+last+resort+was+not+that+of+finding+a+religious+outlook+on+life%22&pg=PA229#v=onepage
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Letter to Denis Diderot, as quoted in The Affairs of Women : A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham
Oath of Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)
Context: I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
Interview with the Aga Khan, BBC World News America, (13 November 2007) http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/10384/
Context: You start with an idea, and then you let it grow. I think at the moment, there is a tendency to want to see political change occur in the developing world very rapidly, and I think this notion of consultation and democracy is all excellent, but I simply don't believe that Western forms of democracy are necessarily replicable throughout the developing world that I know, and indeed I would go so far as to say that, at the moment, one of our risks is to see democracies fail. … I think you have to be patient, careful, analytical, thoughtful, prudent, and build step-by-step. I don't think it can be done like mixing a glass of Nescafé.
"Robert Lewandowski, a force for Bayern Munich, faces an uphill climb with underdog Poland" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/16/robert-lewandowski-poland-euro-2020/ (June 16, 2021)
“Paper is more patient than man.”
Variant: Because paper has more patience than people.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
“Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.”
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
Source: Anatomy of an Illness
“The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.”
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
2009-06-24
Questions for the President: Prescription for America
ABC News
TV
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7920012
2009
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121
Quoted in "The Sniper at War: From the American Revolutionary War to the Present Day" - Page 67 - by Michael E. Haskew - History - 2005.
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961 LP)
1960s
2000s, 2001, Freedom and Democracy Are Under Attack (September 2001)
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
God's decree on him
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 295
Religious Wisdom
2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall (April 2014)
Geduld mit der Streitsucht der Einfältigen! Es ist nicht leicht zu begreifen, dass man nicht begreift.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 20.
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
According to The Veterinarian (Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science) for 1851, edited by Mr. Percivall, this is Ben Jonson's "satirical definition of physic".
Misattributed
Letter to Giovanni Battista Baliani (1639)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.
page 14.
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul (1998)
Letter to Reverdy Johnson (26 July 1862)
1860s
25 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
Further account of his conversations with Andrew Pit
The History of the Quakers (1762)
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Participants in the European Regional Meeting of the World Medical Association, From the Vatican, 7 November 2017 https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20171107_messaggio-monspaglia.html
2010s, 2017
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
On the court's lack of authority regarding the right to die: Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=497&invol=261&friend=oyez (1990) (concurring).
1990s
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
This was in reply to to Gandhiji’s refusal to take medicine as it was not made in India in page=94
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter
Ὁ βίος βραχὺς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. Δεῖ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἑωυτὸν παρέχειν τὰ δέοντα ποιεῦντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν νοσέοντα, καὶ τοὺς παρεόντας, καὶ τὰ ἔξωθεν.
1:1, Variant translation: Art is long; life is short; opportunity is fleeting; judgement is difficult; experience is deceitful. Compare: "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne", Geoffrey Chaucer, The Assembly of Fowles, line 1.
Aphorisms
Floor Statement on President's Decision to Increase Troops in Iraq (19 January 2007)
2007
“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”
Quoted in Victor J. Stenger (1990), Physics and Psychics
Misattributed
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi
Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeffrey-bezos-washington-posts-next-owner-aims-for-a-new-golden-era-at-the-newspaper/2013/09/02/30c00b60-13f6-11e3-b182-1b3bb2eb474c_story.html.
The Secret of the Golden Flower, ibid.
Sonnet http://books.google.com/books?id=SDgOAQAAMAAJ&q="Oh+Death+will+find+me+long+before+I+tire+Of+watching+you"&pg=PA47#v=onepage (1908-1910)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 320
“Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.”
This has recently become attributed to Calhoun on the internet and in print, but seems to be a derivative of John Dryden's statement in Absalom and Achitophel (1681): Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Disputed
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 110
Context: My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both sides, proved to be psychologically inaccessible. The difficulty lay in the fact that she always knew better about everything. Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably "geometrical" idea of reality. After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. Well, I was sitting opposite of her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric. She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab-a costly piece of jewellery. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window and immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabaeid beetle, or common rose-chafer, whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words "Here is your scarab." This broke the ice of her intellectual resistance. The treatment could now be continued with satisfactory results.
“There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.”
Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)