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 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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 natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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