Quotes from Hippocrates

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

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

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

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

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

Life is short, the art long.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Many admire, few know.

The art is long, life is short

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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

Life is short and the art long.

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.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.