Quotes by Greek Physician of the Authors - Page 2

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

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

• Hippocrates / Greek Physician

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations