The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. Florence Nightingale More Quotes by Florence Nightingale More Quotes From Florence Nightingale 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. Florence Nightingale unseen church mind You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. Florence Nightingale buddhism east growth do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself. Florence Nightingale satisfaction paper war There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. Florence Nightingale moral states want Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. Florence Nightingale moral doe world 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 Florence Nightingale lasts struggle dream 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. Florence Nightingale nursing selfishness vanity A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. Florence Nightingale habit want average I use the word nursing for want of a better. Florence Nightingale nursing use want Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them. Florence Nightingale nursing should-have nurse 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. Florence Nightingale medical-profession doctrine mind I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career. Florence Nightingale careers military men Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. Florence Nightingale no-sympathy europe sympathy diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. Florence Nightingale nouns adjectives disease Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing. Florence Nightingale nursing patient nurse The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act. Florence Nightingale permit organization world ... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words. Florence Nightingale schemes few-words people There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain. Florence Nightingale nursing pain looks At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? Florence Nightingale domestic-life competition satisfaction It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other? Florence Nightingale prudent be-careful trying
