Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

… people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Few Words

People

Schemes

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy … His conversation was a procession of one.

Companion

Conversation

Fancy

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Destruction

Doe

Religion

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Air

Nurse

Nursing

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her ‘duties’, forbid it. Her ‘domestic duties’, high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

Break Through

Habit

Light

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Expectations

Nurse

Nursing

At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Competition

Domestic Life

Satisfaction

Averages … seduce us away from minute observation.

Average

Data

Science

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Bismarck

Cat

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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Filling Up

Vanity

Want

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Air

Art

Atmosphere

Average

Beauty

Believe

Bismarck

Break Through

Breathing

Careers

Cat

Causes

Character

Christ

Church

Circumstances

Civilization

Color

Companion

Competition

Complainers

Conversation

Dark

Data

Death

Deserve

Destruction

Diversity

Divine

Doctors

Doctrine

Doe

Domestic Life

Drink

Excellence

Excited

Excuse

Expectations

Expression

Fancy

Female

Few Words

Filling Up

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Habit

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Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

… people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy … His conversation was a procession of one.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Averages … seduce us away from minute observation.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

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