I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. - Axel Munthe
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
- Axel Munthe
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever - Axel Munthe
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful … - Axel Munthe
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful …
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. - Axel Munthe
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not … - Axel Munthe
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not …
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded. - Axel Munthe
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere! - Axel Munthe
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!
The soul needs more space than the body. - Axel Munthe
The soul needs more space than the body.
Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tu… - Axel Munthe
Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tu…
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