Hippocrates Quotes - Page 2

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Nature itself is the best physician.

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.

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

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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

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

It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

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

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

Rest as soon as there is pain.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

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.

Sport is a preserver of health.

All diseases begin in the gut.

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

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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

It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

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.

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.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.