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.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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