A Quote by Paracelsus

The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

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Dose Makes Poison

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Paracelsus
Swiss - Scientist
November 11, 1493 - September 24, 1541

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Paracelsus

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Paracelsus

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

Michael Hyatt

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Max Lucado

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

John Gofman

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.