Quotes from Hippocrates
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
- Hippocrates
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
- Hippocrates
Nature itself is the best physician.
- Hippocrates
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
- Hippocrates
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
- Hippocrates
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
- Hippocrates
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
- Hippocrates
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
- Hippocrates
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
- Hippocrates
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
- Hippocrates
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
- Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Hippocrates