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
nursing civilization stage
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
dream struggle lasts
Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.
nursing want use
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
buddhism growth east
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
fancy conversation companion
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
nursing nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
passion atmosphere would-be
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
journey vision special
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
science average data
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
motivational giving excuse
Never give nor take an excuse.
mind disease medical-profession
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
disease conditions
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
nursing color said
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
nursing men doctors
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.