Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Hippocrates

Hippocrates Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)


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

Hippocrates - Regimen
- Many admire, few know.

Hippocrates - Precepts
- Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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

Hippocrates - Decorum
- Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates -
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates - Law
- Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Hippocrates -
- To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates - Epidemics
- As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates - Regimen in Health
- 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.

Hippocrates - Law
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.