What Are The Best Hippocrates Quotes?
What Are The Best Hippocrates Quotes?
Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a
Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, who is considered one of the most
outstanding figures in the history of medicine. This Hippocrates quotes on
medicine, and health will motivate you.
Best Hippocrates Quotes
Best Hippocrates Quotes
1.
“The greatest medicine of all is teaching people
how not to need it” ~ Hippocrates
2.
“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
3.
“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
4.
“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, Hippocrates quotes on medicine
5.
“Our food should be our medicine and our
medicine should be our food.” ~ Hippocrates
6.
“All disease starts in the gut.” ~ Hippocrates
7.
“The natural healing force within each one of us
is the greatest force in getting well.” ~ Hippocrates
8.
“The physician treats, but nature heals.” ~
Hippocrates, quotes on nature
9.
“If you are not your own doctor, you are a
fool.” ~ Hippocrates
10.
“Make a habit of two things: to help, or at
least to do no harm.” ~ Hippocrates
11.
“Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s
primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to
them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for
health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be
known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention
is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the
individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food
or exercise, the body will fall sick.” ~ Hippocrates
12.
“It’s far more important to know what person the
disease has than what disease the person has.” ~ Hippocrates
13.
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is
also a love of Humanity.” ~ Hippocrates
14.
“Health is the greatest of human blessings.” ~
Hippocrates
15.
“Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you
can heal the patient with food.” ~ Hippocrates
16.
“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge
acquired by the ancients.” ~ Hippocrates
17.
“A wise man ought to realize that health is his
most valuable possession.” ~ Hippocrates
18.
“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
19.
“Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be
the most powerful cure” ~ Hippocrates
20.
“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
21.
“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.” ~
Hippocrates
22.
“Walking is a man’s best medicine.” ~
Hippocrates
23.
“The way to health is to have an aromatic bath
and a scented massage every day.” ~ Hippocrates
24.
“Nature itself is the best physician.” ~
Hippocrates
25.
“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
26.
“The wise man should consider that health is the
greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.” ~ Hippocrates
27.
“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
28.
“Primum nonnocerum. (First do no harm)” ~
Hippocrates
29.
“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology
has no right to call himself a physician.” ~ Hippocrates
30.
“The function of protecting and developing
health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.” ~ Hippocrates
31.
“Rest as soon as there is pain.” ~ Hippocrates
32.
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.” ~
Hippocrates
33.
“Anyone wishing to study medicine must master
the art of massage.” ~ Hippocrates
34.
“Natural forces within us are the true healers
of disease.” ~ Hippocrates
35.
“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.” ~ Hippocrates
36.
“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.” ~ Hippocrates
37.
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” ~
Hippocrates
38.
“It is more important to know the person who has
the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.” ~ Hippocrates
39.
“We must turn to nature itself, to the
observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.” ~
Hippocrates
40.
“To really know is science; to merely believe
you know is ignorance.” ~ Hippocrates
41.
“Sport is a preserver of health.” ~ Hippocrates
42.
“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the
gods a man should himself lend a hand.” ~ Hippocrates
43.
“All diseases begin in the gut.” ~ Hippocrates
44.
“The patient must combat the disease along with
the physician.” ~ Hippocrates
45.
“Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion
fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not
only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the
attendants, and externals cooperate.” ~ Hippocrates
46.
“It is better not to apply any treatment in
cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly;
but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.” ~ Hippocrates
47.
“Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the
requisite for many diseases” ~ Hippocrates
48.
“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when
immoderate, constitute disease.” ~ Hippocrates
49.
“It is better to be full of drink than full of
food.” ~ Hippocrates
50.
“Divine is the task to relieve pain” ~
Hippocrates Quotes
51.
“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
52.
“Declare the past, diagnose the present,
foretell the future; practice these acts.
53.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to
help or do no harm.” ~ Hippocrates
54.
“Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your
‘remedies’ shall be your foods.” ~ Hippocrates
55.
“I will use treatment to help the sick according
to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing.
Neither will I administer poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I
suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.” ~ Hippocrates
56.
“That which is used – develops. That which is
not used wastes away.” ~ Hippocrates
57.
“Some patients, though conscious that their
condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment
with the goodness of the physician.” ~ Hippocrates
58.
“The natural force within each of us is that
greatest healer of all.” ~ Hippocrates
59.
“The natural force within each of us is that
greatest healer of all.” ~ Hippocrates
60.
“Healing in a matter of time, but it is
sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” ~ Hippocrates
61.
“Physicians are many in title but very few in
reality.” ~ Hippocrates
62.
“All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is
safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen
to another.” ~ Hippocrates
63.
“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
64.
“Men ought to know that from nothing else but
the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs,
despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire
wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are
fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory….
And by the same organ, we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail
us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these
ways, I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the
man.” ~ Hippocrates
65.
“Male and female have the power to fuse into one
solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because the soul is the
same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.” ~
Hippocrates
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