Hippocrates Quotes

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

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

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.

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

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Let food be thy your medicine

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

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't 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 it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

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

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

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

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

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