It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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