Medicine Quotes by Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

— Hippocrates

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

— Hippocrates

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

— Hippocrates

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

— Hippocrates

Nature itself is the best physician.

— Hippocrates

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

— Hippocrates

The physician treats, but nature heals.

— Hippocrates

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

— Hippocrates

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

— Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

— Hippocrates

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

— Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

— Hippocrates

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

— Hippocrates

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

— Hippocrates

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

— Hippocrates

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those…

— Hippocrates

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients,…

— Hippocrates

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a…

— Hippocrates

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

— Hippocrates

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must…

— Hippocrates

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each…

— Hippocrates

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will…

— Hippocrates

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the…

— Hippocrates

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding…

— Hippocrates

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common…

— Hippocrates

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and…

— Hippocrates

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within…

— Hippocrates

“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or…

— Hippocrates

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are…

— Hippocrates

Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the…

— Hippocrates

But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the…

— Hippocrates

It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is…

— Hippocrates

Walking is a man's best medicine.

— Hippocrates

Walking is man's best medicine.

— Hippocrates

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

— Hippocrates

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

— Hippocrates

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

— Hippocrates

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

— Hippocrates

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

— Hippocrates