Quotes by Hippocrates

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

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

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

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

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

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.

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Walking is man’s best medicine.