Hippocrates Quotes

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.

Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

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 far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment connected with the practice of medicine (and with it alone) except disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons are like the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape, and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

A cura está ligada ao tempo e, às vezes, também, às circunstâncias.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

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.

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

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

Tubuhmu adalah tempat tinggalmu. Rawatlah dengan baik.

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

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)