Félix Martí-Ibáñez

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

“To be a doctor, then, means much more than to dispense pills or patch up or repair torn flesh and shattered minds. To be a doctor is to be an intermediary between man and God.”

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

“The magic of the word is the oldest and most potent of all spells.”

“History is a creative art, for it is the art of reviving the past.”

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off to distant lands, far from the madding crowd, to a world of dreams and fantasies.”

“The great doctors all had two things in common: a passionate love for their fellow men and a burning desire to find the truth.”

“Art is the river of life that flows from the heart of man, from the very fount of his being, to water the fields of his existence.”

“To know the history of medicine is to know the history of mankind.”

“The joy of discovery is the single most important passion of a scientist.”

“The physician's greatest tool is his own personality, which he must learn to use as skillfully as he does his scalpel or his stethoscope.”

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”