Hippocrates Quotes

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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates

Help, Two, Habit

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

Health, Time, Healing

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.
Hippocrates

Fitness, Health, Give

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates

Food, Medicine, Thy

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.
Hippocrates

Health, Wise, Greatest

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates

Sometimes, Treat, Often

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates

True, Within, Natural

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

Science, Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Medical, Good, Cannot

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

Important, Person, Disease

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates

Nature, Everything, Excess

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

Nothing, Words, Language

Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates

Best, Walking, Medicine

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

Love, Art, Humanity

Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates

Life, Art, Long

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

Knowledge, Himself, Call

To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates

Good, Nothing, Remedy

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates

Extreme, Diseases, Remedies

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates

Important, Person, Far

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

Life, Long, Short

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

Good, Prayer, While

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

Knowledge, Science, Ignorance

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

Fire, Heal, Lance

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

Lie, Keep, Often

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Scientist

Born: 460 BC

Died: 357 BC

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