It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

- Hippocrates

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

- Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long.

- Hippocrates

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

- Hippocrates

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

- Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short.

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Hippocrates

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

- Hippocrates

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

- Hippocrates

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

- Hippocrates

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

- Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

- Hippocrates

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

- Hippocrates

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

- Hippocrates