Quotes by Hippocrates

Walking is mans best medicine.

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

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

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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.

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.

Life is short, the art long.

“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.”

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

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

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

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