Hippocrates Quotes (44 Quotes)

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents to make him partner in my livelihood when he is in need of money to share mine with him to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, witho

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Many admire, few know.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Life is short, the art long.

For extreme illnesses extreme remedies are most fitting.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Idleness and lack of occupation tendnay are draggedtowards evil.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

The human soul develops up to death.

In all abundance there is lack.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

Art is long, life is short. Ars longa, vita brevis.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Of Medicine The life so short, the art so long to learn, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, But their diseases never leave them.

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

The art is long, life is short.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.