Hippocrates Quotes
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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The art is long, life is short.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Many admire, few know.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.
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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.