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Hippocrates

12 quotes

We may not know everything about Hippocrates, but we know they had a way with words. Their thinking spans from Knowledge to Health, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 16 quotes from Hippocrates, each offering a different angle on Knowledge, Health, Science, Art, and Time. Among their most shared lines: "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.”

— Hippocrates

Knowledge

All Quotes by Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

Medical

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

— Hippocrates

Nature

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

— Hippocrates

Food

“Life is short, the art long.”

— Hippocrates

Art

“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

Health

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

— Hippocrates

Health

“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.”

— Hippocrates

Fitness

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

— Hippocrates

Knowledge

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

— Hippocrates

Knowledge

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

— Hippocrates

Knowledge

“Walking is man's best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

Best

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

— Hippocrates

Art