Hippocrates Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

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

  Hippocrates

  Two, Medicine, Helping

  Epidemics bk. 1, ch. 11

• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

• Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts.
  As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

  Hippocrates

  Past, Practice, Two

  Epidemics bk. 1, ch. 11

• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

  Hippocrates

  Art, Medicine, Fruit

  "Precepts". Book by Hippocrates, Ch. 2, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923),

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