Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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