Hippocrates Quotes
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Life is short and the art long.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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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 natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.