More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
