All Hippocrates Quotes
- Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it… Atheist
- Sport is a preserver of health. Funny
- Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… Arise
- ...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… Acute
- Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these… All
- The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. Both
- Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. Food
- Nature itself is the best physician. Best
- If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool. Doctor
- Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Disease
- To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. Good
- Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of… Doctor
- Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… Able
- I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. Acquired
- Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. Begets
- Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant… Body
- Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… Art
- But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… All
- A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. Astrology
- Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Appropriate
- Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help… Able
- Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must… All
- The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these… Bile
- The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Chief
- Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. Ailing