That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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