Author: Hippocrates

Quotes

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

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

- Hippocrates

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

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

- Hippocrates

Walking is man's best medicine.

Walking is man's best medicine.

- Hippocrates

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

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

- Hippocrates

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

- Hippocrates

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Hippocrates

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

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

- Hippocrates

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