Quotes by Hippocrates

“Its far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has”

“Walking is mans best medicine”

“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”

“Hes the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”

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

“...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.”

“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.”

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult”

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

“The art is long, life is short”

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they dont have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that its divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

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

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

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.

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

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

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.