Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
