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Quotes by Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
– Hippocrates
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
– Hippocrates
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
– 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.
– Hippocrates
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
– Hippocrates
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
– Hippocrates
Life is short, the art long.
– Hippocrates
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
– Hippocrates
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
– Hippocrates
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
– Hippocrates
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
– Hippocrates
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
– Hippocrates
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
– Hippocrates
Walking is man's best medicine.
– Hippocrates
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
– Hippocrates
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
– Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
– Hippocrates
Many admire, few know.
– 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.
– Hippocrates
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
– Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
– Hippocrates
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
– Hippocrates
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
– Hippocrates