Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATESI 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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