03UndatedPeople think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universeHippocrates / quote ↗
04UndatedThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates / quote ↗
05UndatedThe 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.Hippocrates / quote ↗
06UndatedAs to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.Hippocrates / quote ↗
07UndatedIn whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.Hippocrates / quote ↗
08UndatedPersons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.Hippocrates / quote ↗
09UndatedIf you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.Hippocrates / quote ↗
11UndatedFor if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.Hippocrates / quote ↗
16UndatedPersons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.Hippocrates / quote ↗
18UndatedWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.Hippocrates / quote ↗
21UndatedThe art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.Hippocrates / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.Hippocrates / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.Hippocrates / quote ↗
Edsverb reading cardΠThe RepublicPlatoFree edition · US public domainBenjamin Jowett translationRelated reading on knowledge; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card道Tao Te ChingLaozi (traditional attribution)Free edition · US public domainJames Legge translation; publication year not supplied in the linked digitized textRelated reading on nature; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card☼The ProphetKahlil GibranFree edition · US public domain1923 English editionRelated reading on love and life; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗