Florence Nightingale Quotes

Macaulay Somewhere Says, That It Is Extraordinary That, Whereas The Laws Of The Motions Of The Heavenly Bodies, Far Removed As They Are From Us, Are Perfectly Well Understood, The Laws Of The Human Mind, Which Are Under Our Observation All Day And Every Day, Are No Better Understood Than They Were Two Thousand Years Ago.

A Nurse Is To Maintain The Air Within The Room As Fresh As The Air Without, Without Lowering The Temperature.

Law Is No Explanation Of Anything; Law Is Simply A Generalization, A Category Of Facts. Law Is Neither A Cause, Nor A Reason, Nor A Power, Nor A Coercive Force. It Is Nothing But A General Formula, A Statistical Table.

I Was Very Limited As A Women. Getting The Men In The Military To See That The Medical Facilities Were Unhealthy Was Very Difficult, Along With Many Other Things Such As Getting A Good Education And Also Finding A Good Career.

Can The "word" Be Pinned Down To Either One Period Or One Church? All Churches Are, Of Course, Only More Or Less Unsuccessful Attempts To Represent The Unseen To The Mind.

Women Should Have The True Nurse Calling, The Good Of The Sick First The Second Only The Consideration Of What Is Their 'place' To Do - And That Women Who Want For A Housemaid To Do This Or The Charwomen To Do That, When The Patient Is Suffering, Have Not The Making Of A Nurse In Them.

I Use The Word Nursing For Want Of A Better.

Asceticism Is The Trifling Of An Enthusiast With His Power, A Puerile Coquetting With His Selfishness Or His Vanity, In The Absence Of Any Sufficiently Great Object To Employ The First Or Overcome The Last.

You Must Go To Mahometanism, To Buddhism, To The East, To The Sufis Fakirs, To Pantheism, For The Right Growth Of Mysticism.

There Is A Physical, Not Moral, Impossibility Of Supplying The Wants Of The Intellect In The State Of Civilisation At Which We Have Arrived.

Women Dream Till They Have No Longer The Strength To Dream; Those Dreams Against Which They So Struggle, So Honestly, Vigorously, And Conscientiously, And So In Vain, Yet Which Are Their Life, Without Which They Could Not Have Lived; Those Dreams Go At Last.

Perhaps, If Prematurely We Dismiss Ourselves From This World, All May Even Have To Be Suffered Through Again - The Premature Birth May Not Contribute To The Production Of Another Being, Which Must Be Begun Again From The Beginning.