Top 120 Hippocrates Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”

— Hippocrates

2. “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

— Hippocrates

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3. “If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.”

— Hippocrates

4. “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.”

— Hippocrates

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5. “Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

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6. “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.”

— Hippocrates

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7. “The physician treats, but nature heals.”

— Hippocrates

8. “Sport is a preserver of health.”

— Hippocrates

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9. “He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.”

— Hippocrates

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10. “It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”

— Hippocrates

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11. “All disease starts in the gut.”

— Hippocrates

12. “The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.”

— Hippocrates

13. “Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.”

— Hippocrates

14. “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

— Hippocrates

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15. “The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.”

— Hippocrates

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16. “Nature itself is the best physician.”

— Hippocrates

17. “The art is long, life is short.”

— Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

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20. “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.”

— Hippocrates

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21. “Divine is the task to relieve pain.”

— Hippocrates

22. “War is the only proper school of the surgeon.”

— Hippocrates

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23. “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.”

— Hippocrates

24. “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”

— Hippocrates

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25. “Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick.”

— Hippocrates

26. “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”

— Hippocrates

27. “Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.”

— Hippocrates

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28. “Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”

— Hippocrates

29. “The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”

— Hippocrates

30. “When in sickness, look to the spine first.”

— Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

32. “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

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

— Hippocrates

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34. “Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”

— Hippocrates

35. “To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”

— Hippocrates

36. “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

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37. “Health is the greatest of human blessings.”

— Hippocrates

38. “Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.”

— Hippocrates

39. “Primum non nocere.”

— Hippocrates

40. “Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

— Hippocrates

41. “He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.”

— Hippocrates

42. “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

43. “The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

— Hippocrates

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

— Hippocrates

45. “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.”

— Hippocrates

46. “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

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

— Hippocrates

48. “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

49. “The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.”

— Hippocrates

50. “Many admire, few know.”

— Hippocrates