Quotes by Hippocrates

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”

“Life is short, the art long.”

“Walking is man's best medicine.”

“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.”

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

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

“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.”

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”

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

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.”

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

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