Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATESWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATES -
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATES -
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATES -
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATES -
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
All disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATES -
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATES -
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
HIPPOCRATES -
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATES -
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,
HIPPOCRATES -
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATES -
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATES -
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATES