Hippocrates
Quotes by Hippocrates
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
— Hippocrates
Life is short, the art long.
— Hippocrates
Walking is man's best medicine.
— 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
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
— Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
— 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
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
— Hippocrates
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
— Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
— Hippocrates
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
— Hippocrates
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
— Hippocrates