Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HIPPOCRATESTo really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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.
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