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.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with 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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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