There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESAll parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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 art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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