As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates Quotes
Greece
Hippocrates (Ἱπποκράτης) of Kos (c. 460 BC - 377 BC) was an ancient Greek physician who is referred to as the "father of medicine".
- Greece
- Physicians
28 quotes
It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Catholic Morality : Selected Sayings and Some Account of Various Religions (1915)
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
James Mackenzie in The History of Health (1759)
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases."
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
Oath of Hippocrates (-400)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hippocrates (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.