Florence Nightingale Quotes

"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization"

"Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men."

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."

"Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion"

"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement / they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men."

"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose"