There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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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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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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.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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