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

— Herbert M. Shelton

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

— Herbert M. Shelton

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

— Herbert M. Shelton

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

— Herbert M. Shelton

Natural laws admit of no exceptions.

— Herbert M. Shelton

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

— Herbert M. Shelton

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

— Herbert M. Shelton

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

— Herbert M. Shelton

The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that disease is something that must be cured, the idea that it is something that can be cured, must be eradicated from the human mind before we can hope to arrive at a rational solution of our health problems.

— Herbert M. Shelton

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.

— Herbert M. Shelton