Hippocrates Quotes

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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Hippocrates

Teaching, Medicine, People

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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.

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Wish, Firsts, Helping

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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.

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Blue, Sin, Illness

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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

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Funny Inspirational, Get Well, Healing

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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Hippocrates

Funny Inspirational, Doctors, Medicine

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

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Two, Medicine, Helping

Epidemics bk. 1, ch. 11

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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

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Fitness, Medicine, Fasting

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Health is the greatest of human blessings.

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Health, Blessing, Illness

Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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All disease starts in the gut.

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Disease, Guts

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The physician treats, but nature heals.

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Physicians, Treats, Heal

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

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Healing, Health, Medicine

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Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

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Inspiring, Food, Ayurveda

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

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Life, Get Well, Healing

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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

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Doctors, Ayurveda, Foolish

Entering the world (M. Odent)

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

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Art, Nursing, Umpires

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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

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Powerful, Disease, Causes

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Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

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Fall, Home, Exercise

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

Hippocrates

Wise, Men, Medicine

Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

Hippocrates

Health, Medicine, Natural

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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Hippocrates

Reality, Physicians, Titles

Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.784

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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

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Men, Holy

Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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Funny Inspirational, Political, Sometimes

" A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources" by H. L. Mencken, 1942.

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

Journey, Men, Medicine

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Nature itself is the best physician.

Hippocrates

Funny Inspirational, Physicians

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

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Function, Restoring, Developing

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Born: 460 BC
Died: 370 BC
Occupation: Greek physician
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