I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Life is short, the art long.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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