Hippocrates quotes

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.

The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.

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

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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

It is better to be full of drink than of food, and better to have overeaten than to have overdrunk.

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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.

The physician must be experienced in many things, but most assuredly in rubbing.

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

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

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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

Experience is the best teacher of all things.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Rekavia takes away the pain, strengthens a dull brain, cures an old and latent pain.

To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

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

The natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Art, and its use of human beings, lies in making a man’s character beautiful.

By far the greatest part of diseases have their origin in lifestyle.

Our food should be our medicine, and our medicine should be our food.

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself; art cannot manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and reason is powerless.

Unwholesome food rather kills than maintains life.

Let the young physician never tire of the study, as too often happens, but let him further and further improve his knowledge.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

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

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

The way in which the disease took its origin in him was as follows: he walked one day outside the city walls, when a certain woman of Lycia who was a leper saw him.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Those dreams which have your mind for their end, may as often be traced to something morbid in your stomach as to anything else.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

To observe the true nature of all things is the proper work of a wise man.

Be careful of the disease that goes out of the mouth.