205 Quotes by Hippocrates

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

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

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

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

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.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

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

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.