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.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, 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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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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