Hippocrates Quotes - Page 1

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Many admire, few know.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Life is short, the art long.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The art is long, life is short

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

All disease starts in the gut.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

All diseases begin in the gut.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Rest as soon as there is pain.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

All disease begins in the gut.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The art is long, life is short.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Sport is a preserver of health.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Walking is man's best medicine.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

In all abundance there is lack.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Life is short and the art long.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Walking is a man's best medicine.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Divine is the task to relieve pain

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Opposites are cures for opposites.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Nature itself is the best physician.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The physician treats, but nature heals.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

When in sickness, look to the spine first.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.