Hippocrates Quotes
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
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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 is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Life is short and the art long.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
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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 divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.