All Hippocrates Quotes
- Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from… Age
- The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. Along
- The human soul develops up to the time of death. Death
- Life is short and the art long. Art
- It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… Ache
- What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Doe
- I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but… Any
- In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… Acute
- The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold. Disease
- First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… All
- And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from… All
- Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not;… Benefit
- The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and… Bile
- Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. Dangerous
- I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is… Been
- Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? Brain
- For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. Art
- 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
- The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. Blessing
- 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… Art