Hippocrates famous quotes

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
-- Hippocrates

#Two #Helping #Habit

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

#Wish #Firsts #Helping

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

#Function

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
-- Hippocrates

#Blue #Sin #Illness

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

#Fitness #Medicine #Should

In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
-- Hippocrates

#Eye #Self #Yellow

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

#Waste #Used

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
-- Hippocrates

#Knowledge #Men #Smell

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

#Sick #Healthy #Physicians

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
-- Hippocrates

#Funny Inspirational #Doctors #Fool

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
-- Hippocrates

#Animal #Soul #Different

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
-- Hippocrates

#Food #Health #Medicine

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
-- Hippocrates

#Health #Exercise #Men

Opposites are cures for opposites.
-- Hippocrates

#Opposites #Cures

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy....
-- Hippocrates

#Men #Holy

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
-- Hippocrates

#Looks #Disease #Causes

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
-- Hippocrates

#Funny Inspirational #Get Well #Healing

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

#Way #Baths #Massage

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
-- Hippocrates

#Knowledge #Medicine #Firsts

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

#Evil #Occupation #Idleness

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

#Art #Medicine #Wish

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

#Physicians #Should #Sensational

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
-- Hippocrates

#Polite #Persons

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
-- Hippocrates

#Medicine #Healthy #Physicians

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

#Sports #Laughter #Grief

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

#Health #Important #Disease

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates

#Laughter #Pain #Mistake

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

#Body #Disease #Wellness

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
-- Hippocrates

#Art #Ignorance #Practice

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
-- Hippocrates

#Healthy #Growth #Age

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
-- Hippocrates

#Excess

Many admire, few know.
-- Hippocrates

#Reality #Admire

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

#Healing #Health #Opportunity

All disease starts in the gut.
-- Hippocrates

#Disease #Guts

The physician treats, but nature heals.
-- Hippocrates

#Physicians #Treats #Heal

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

#Funny Inspirational #Medicine

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
-- Hippocrates

#Reality #Physicians #Titles

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
-- Hippocrates

#Physicians #Lovers #Equal

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

#Father #Ignorance #Opinion

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
-- Hippocrates

#Firsts #Harm

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

#Doctors #Medical #Harm

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

#Art #Nursing #Medicine

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

#Ignorance #Science #Two

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
-- Hippocrates

#Funny Inspirational #Sometimes #Remedy

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

#Doctors #Foolish #Despise

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
-- Hippocrates

#Funny Inspirational #Disease #Natural

Sport is a preserver of health.
-- Hippocrates

#Sports

Nature itself is the best physician.
-- Hippocrates

#Funny Inspirational #Physicians

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

#Life #Long #Crafts

Life is short, the art long.
-- Hippocrates

#Art #Life Is Short #Long

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

#Prayer #Men #Hands

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

#Wise #Food #Blessing

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

#Wise #Men #Realizing

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
-- Hippocrates

#Philosophical #Disease #Remedy

When in sickness, look to the spine first.
-- Hippocrates

#Looks #Firsts #Sickness

It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.
-- Hippocrates

#Healing #Doctors #Hands

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

#Inspiring #Food #Drug

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
-- Hippocrates

#Moving On #Moving #Past

All diseases begin in the gut.
-- Hippocrates

#Health #Disease #Guts

Health is the greatest of human blessings.
-- Hippocrates

#Blessing #Humans

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
-- Hippocrates

#Comfort #Sometimes #Treats

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

#Teaching #Medicine #People

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

#Astrology #Physicians

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
-- Hippocrates

#Men #Substance #Body

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

#Important #Persons