Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
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Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.