Hippocrates Quotes
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The art is long, life is short.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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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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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.