Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESSilence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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