Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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