Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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