- Dr.Ferdinand Sauerbruch: The human can take a lot: surgeons, earthquakes and wars. But the psychiatry will kill him. I have noticed that the more psychiatrists there are the more maniacs you will find.
- Dr.Ferdinand Sauerbruch: [to a student who offered to take on a girl patient's stocking] The women I have undress I dress myself.
- Dr.Ferdinand Sauerbruch: A doctor who can tell good stories only needs half of injections and medicine.