If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.