Quotes from Hippocrates
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
— Hippocrates
Sport is a preserver of health.
— Hippocrates
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
— Hippocrates
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
— Hippocrates
Nature itself is the best physician.
— Hippocrates
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.
— Hippocrates
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
— Hippocrates
A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
— Hippocrates
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
— Hippocrates
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
— Hippocrates
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
— Hippocrates
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
— Hippocrates