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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
