Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Many admire, few know.
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Walking is a man's best medicine.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.