Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESThings that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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