He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.