Hippocrates Quotes

‘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

‘Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.’ – Hippocrates

‘Life is short, the art long.’ – 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

‘Walking is man’s best medicine.’ – Hippocrates

‘Everything in excess is opposed to nature.’ – Hippocrates

‘Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.’ – Hippocrates

‘Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.’ – Hippocrates

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

‘The life so short, the craft so long to learn.’ – 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

‘It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.’ – Hippocrates

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

‘It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.’ – Hippocrates

‘Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.’ – Hippocrates

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

‘A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.’ – Hippocrates

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

‘What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.’ – Hippocrates