110+ Hippocrates Quotes On Health, Medicine And Fasting

Hippocrates was a Greek physician who lived in the 5th century BC. He is considered to be the father of modern medicine and is credited with revolutionizing the practice of medicine. He is famous for his oath, which is still taken by medical professionals today, and for his contributions to the understanding of anatomy and physiology. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Hippocrates on health, medicine, fasting.

Top 10 Hippocrates Quotes

1. It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
2. Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
3. Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
4. If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
5. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
6. If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
7. Walking is a man's best medicine.
8. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
9. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
10. The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Hippocrates Image Quotes

Walking is a man's best medicine. — Hippocrates

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. — Hippocrates

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

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. — Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases — Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates Short Quotes

• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
• Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
• Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
• The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
• 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.
• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
• Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
• Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
• He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Hippocrates Quotes About Health

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. — Hippocrates

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

Health is the greatest of human blessings. — Hippocrates

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. — Hippocrates

All diseases begin in the gut. — Hippocrates

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. — Hippocrates

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — Hippocrates

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quotes About Medicine

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. — Hippocrates

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

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. — Hippocrates

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

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. — Hippocrates

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 behind all the arts. — Hippocrates

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. — Hippocrates

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quotes About Food

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach. — Hippocrates

It is better to be full of drink than full of food. — Hippocrates

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods. — Hippocrates

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quotes About Short

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate. — Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult. — Hippocrates

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. — Hippocrates

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. — Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long. — Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quotes About Life

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away. — Hippocrates

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about. — Hippocrates

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another. — Hippocrates

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends. — Hippocrates

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quotes About Science

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose. — Hippocrates

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

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it. — Hippocrates

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

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded. — Hippocrates

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears. — Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place. — Hippocrates

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science. — Hippocrates

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. — Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates Quotes About Learn

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. — Hippocrates

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

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates Famous Quotes And Sayings

Walking is a man's best medicine. — Hippocrates

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. — Hippocrates

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

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases — Hippocrates

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

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman. — Hippocrates

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain. — Hippocrates

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

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

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — Hippocrates

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time. — Hippocrates

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald. — Hippocrates

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. — Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease — Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. — Hippocrates

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. — Hippocrates

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. — Hippocrates

The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over. — Hippocrates

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

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. — Hippocrates

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold. — Hippocrates

Many admire, few know. — Hippocrates

The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. — Hippocrates

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

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses. — Hippocrates

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. — Hippocrates

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant. — Hippocrates

The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled. — Hippocrates

To do nothing is also a good remedy. — Hippocrates

War is the only proper school of the surgeon. — Hippocrates

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. — Hippocrates

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sanoa healthy mind in a healthy body — Hippocrates

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

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character. — Hippocrates

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

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. — Hippocrates

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

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine". — Hippocrates

The physician treats, but nature heals. — Hippocrates

Rest as soon as there is pain. — Hippocrates

Sometimes give your services for nothing. — Hippocrates

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. — Hippocrates

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

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. — Hippocrates

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit. — Hippocrates

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain. — Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. — Hippocrates

When in sickness, look to the spine first. — Hippocrates

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm. — Hippocrates

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe. — Hippocrates

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces. — Hippocrates

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves. — Hippocrates

Life Lessons by Hippocrates

1. Hippocrates taught that the human body should be treated holistically, and that the body, mind, and spirit should be considered together when treating a patient.
2. He also believed in the importance of observation and experimentation in understanding the natural world and developing treatments.
3. He emphasized the importance of preventative care and the necessity of taking responsibility for one's own health and well-being.