Hippocrates Quotes
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Walking is a man's best medicine.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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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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The art is long, life is short.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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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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Primum non nocerum. (First 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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Many admire, few know.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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.