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.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity 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.
HIPPOCRATESScience begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESMake a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
HIPPOCRATESFrom nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESMany admire, few know.
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