(416 quotes found)
“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”
Sherlock Holmes
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
Ronald Reagan
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Robert Frost
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
Rose F. Kennedy
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny”
Mikhail Dudan
“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence”
James Bryce
“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
John Steinbeck
“If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.”
Isocrates
“By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father”
Douglas MacArthur
