Top 16 Herbert M. Shelton Quotes



It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

 

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

 

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

 

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

 

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

 

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

 

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

 

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

 

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

 

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

 

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

 

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

 

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

 

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

 

The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.

 

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

 

 

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