Chiefs Quote by Hippocrates Download Open image “The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.” — Hippocrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chiefs Clarity Clearness Editing Language Plain language Unfamiliar Virtue Writing Written language
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms. — Galen Copy Share Image
I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language… — Rene Daumal 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
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