A Quote by William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
British - Celebrity
March 2, 1705 - March 20, 1793

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

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.

W. S. Merwin

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.

Leo Tolstoy

The dose makes the poison.

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

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

Terence McKenna

If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?

Esther Earl

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

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

John Cameron

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

Paracelsus

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

Mahatma Gandhi

There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

Michael Savage

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.