Hippocrates Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hippocrates
Hippocrates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
It's more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.