Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATES -
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
HIPPOCRATES -
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATES -
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATES -
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
HIPPOCRATES -
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATES -
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
HIPPOCRATES -
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
Opposites are cures for opposites.
HIPPOCRATES -
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATES -
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATES -
Nature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATES -
In all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATES -
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Sport is a preserver of health.
HIPPOCRATES -
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
HIPPOCRATES -
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
HIPPOCRATES -
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATES -
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATES -
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATES -
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATES