Hippocrates Quotes

It is far more important to know what sort of person has the disease, rather than what sort of disease the person has.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

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

«يظن الناس أن الصرع شيء من عند الآلهة، وهذا فقط لعجزهم عن فهمه. ولكنهم إذا درجوا على وصف كل ما لا يفهمونه بأنه من عند الآلهة فلن تكون هناك نهاية للأشياء التي من عند الآلهة»

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation — to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.

All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

الطبيب الذي يحب الحكمة لا يقل عن الآلهة في شيء

[A]ll the causes of the sufferance refer themselves to this rule, that the strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease.

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

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

And in this way truly you may see that it is not
a god that injures the body, but disease.