Quotes from Hippocrates

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

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

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

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

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

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

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Gouty pains do chiefly stir spring and fall.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.