Hippocrates Quotes
"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Gods, Man, Prayer)
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Science, Father, Knowledge, Ignorance, Opinion)
"The art is long, life is short."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Art, Life)
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Virtue, Language, Nothing, Words)
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Life)
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Fact, Ignorance, Opinion)
"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Disease)
"Walking is man's best medicine."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Man, Medicine, Walking)
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Lie, Faults)
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Harm)
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Art, Love, Humanity, Medicine)
"To do nothing is also a good remedy."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Nothing)
"Many admire, few know."
- Hippocrates
"Life is short, the art long."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Art, Life)
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Disease)
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Disease)
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Health, Exercise, Right)
"Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Healing)
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Extreme, Remedies)
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Nature, Excess)
"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Comfort, Cure)
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Health, Thought, Blessings, Man)
"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Knowledge, Astrology, Right)
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Habit, Harm, Help)