Food Quotes by Hippocrates

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

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

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

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

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

— Hippocrates

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

— Hippocrates

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

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

— Hippocrates

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

— Hippocrates

All diseases begin in the gut.

— Hippocrates

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

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