Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Life is short, the art long.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Life is short and the art long.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.