Favorite Quotes

Factual Statements, quotations and sayings worth knowing  (and understanding) if you wish to become and remain healthy without the use of symptom suppressing pharmaceutical drugs, the huge and ever increasing ignorance of mainstream medicine, and the greed, subversive tactics and marketing of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.

I proudly applaud all those physicians who are willing, against their own AMA’s guidelines and directives, to investigate good, solid, published, dietary, nutritional and herbal science.  To find information that seems as if it might better help them to help their patients.  To try those far less toxic (mostly 100% non toxic) therapies on their patients in order to determine which ones work well.  To boldly and finally abide by their own Hippocratic oath of “First do no harm” and begin to help support their patient’s bodies inherent ability to heal itself.  We need more of you.  Go out, be a medical gardener and cultivate some friends to join your most noble and necessary endeavors.

I personally thank you all.
David Getoff, CCN CTN, FAAIM    

Below are many of my favorite quotes, sayings and statements, enjoy.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know,
it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
- Plato

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.
- Author Unknown

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
- Chinese Proverb

The most important qualities of a good health practitioner are an extremely open mind coupled with an extremely skeptical mind. When either is lacking, their "facts" and "knowledge" are far more likely to be faulty, inadequate, incomplete, or simply wrong.
- David Getoff

A Short History of Medicine
2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."
1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."
1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."
1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."
2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial & has stopped working.  Here, eat this root."
- Author Unknown

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison

Traditional schooling and education will always comprise the smallest amount of the knowledge base for any exceptional health practitioner. One must continually go outside of the mainstream and test everything you are taught or told as "fact", in order to learn what actually works and what does not.
- David Getoff

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
- Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner

There is no treatment or drug - Which can overcome or negate - The effects of a poor diet, inadequate nutrition, lack of exercise, and an unhealthy life style.
- David Getoff 1998

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
- Benjamin Franklin

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both
- Dwight Eisenhower

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
- Michael Chrichton

Clinical experience and observed results (also called anecdotal evidence) trump or outweigh published research and beliefs every time.
- David Getoff

"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO BEGIN TO LEARN WHAT HE THINKS HE ALREADY KNOWS."
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
(Greek born Roman Philosopher)

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

Those who say something cannot be done, should not get in the way of those who are already doing it.
- Translation of Chinese proverb

Any time you take a food that nature or God has given us and alter it, you make it worse. Chickens have skin, eggs have yolks, milk has butter fat and nature made them that way. If you desire health, stop telling Nature and God that they are stupid.
- David Getoff

A wise healer uses what works, regardless of what any supposed authority may say to the contrary
- David Getoff

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein

"It doesn't make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is - If it disagrees with real-life results, it is wrong. That's all there is to it."
- Richard Feynman Winner Nobel Prize in physics 1965

Beliefs that are not true, remain untrue regardless of how strong the beliefs are, how many initials the believers have after their names, or how well known or highly respected the believers may be.
- David Getoff 2000

There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
Which is proof against all arguments, and
Which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
That principle is- contempt prior to investigation
- Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) English philosopher