To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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 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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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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. …
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