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Hippocrates Quotes

Type:
Scientist Quotes
Category:
Greek Scientist Quotes
Year of Birth:
460 BC
Year of Death:
357 BC
Nationality:
Greek
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

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.
Hippocrates

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Hippocrates

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates

Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates

To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates

Walking is a man's best medicine.
Hippocrates

Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates



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