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Quotes by Hippocrates

Hippocrates

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

Hippocrates

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

Let food be thy your medicine

Hippocrates

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Hippocrates

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Hippocrates

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Hippocrates

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Hippocrates

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

Hippocrates

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

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

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates