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Hippocrates Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Tagged: Sleep, Insomnia, lack of sleep, Health, excess, Moderation, dis-ease, Medicine
“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
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
— Hippocrates, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything
Tagged: Remedy, inaction, Doing Nothing
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