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 prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Life is short, the art long.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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