Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
want moral states
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
night praying drink
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
next female christ
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
mind church unseen
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.
jesus passion men
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
expression law ideas
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
nursing vanity selfishness
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.
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.