Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. – Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. – 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
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. – Hippocrates
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. – 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
