Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESWe must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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