There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDiseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
-
-
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE






