Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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