205 Quotes by Hippocrates

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

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

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

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

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.

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.

The art is long, life is short.

Life is short, art is long.

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.