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Hippocrates Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
— Hippocrates, The Other Side of ADHD: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Palliative and Terminal Care- Second Series
Tagged: Knowledge, Medicine, Past, present, Future, Learning, purpose
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance”
— Hippocrates, Hippocrates: Father of Medicine
Tagged: Science, Knowledge, Learning, student, Ignorance, Mindset, open mind
“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, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 2
Tagged: sacred, Myself, Science, Knowledge, Learning
“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill.”
— Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 2
Tagged: tmidity, Shy, audacity, Powers, skill, Learning, Courage
“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”
— Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 2
Tagged: Time, Life, Living, maturity, mature, strength
“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”
— Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 2
Tagged: Talent, Passion, Learning, student, pupil
“Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts”
— Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 2
Tagged: Medicine, medial field, Arts, Knowledge, Learning, Ignorance
“With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.”
— Hippocrates, Medicine and Healers Through History
Tagged: Mindset, self awareness, oath, Pure, Promise
“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: Sleep, Insomnia, lack of sleep, Health, excess, Moderation, dis-ease, Medicine
“When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: Sleep, cure
“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: disease, Illness, sickness, cure, medical, Medicine
“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: Sleep, Insomnia, Moderation, Discipline, excess
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: Life, Living, Time, short, Experiences
“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuously in armies abroad. Thus, the person intending to practice this kind of surgery must serve in the army, and accompany it on expeditions abroad; for in this way he would become experienced in this practice.”
— Hippocrates, Hippocrates, Volume 8
Tagged: medical, Medicine, wounds, Treatment, Surgery, practice
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
— Hippocrates, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything
Tagged: Remedy, inaction, Doing Nothing
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
— Hippocrates, Happy Without the Meal: Reflections from Catholic Faith and Reason
Tagged: Life, Living, Living A Balanced Life, excess, Moderation, Discipline
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact.”
— Hippocrates, Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
Tagged: Conclusion, Verbal, Opinion
“Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.”
— Hippocrates, Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
Tagged: Time, Opportunity, Life, Mindset
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”
— Hippocrates, Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
Tagged: Healing, Medicine, practice, Theory, Knowledge, Learning
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
— Hippocrates, The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine
Tagged: Illness, Sick, help, medical, medication
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