Paracelsus Quotes


The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.


Citations

Paracelsus. Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus. Edited by Henry E. Sigerist, translated by C. Lilian Temkin, Johns Hopkins Press, 1941, pp. 29-30.

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Paracelsus
  • Born: November 11, 1493
  • Died: September 24, 1541
  • Nationality: Swiss, German
  • Profession: Scientist

Paracelsus, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.