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.
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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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