Hippocrates Quotes About Life

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  • Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

    Life   Opportunity   Long  
    Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

    'Aphorisms' sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; see Seneca 'De Brevitae Vitae' sect. 1.
  • Life is short, the art long.

    Life   Art   Long  
    Aphorisms sec. 1, para. 1.
  • That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

  • Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

    Life   Soul   Males  
    Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”
  • Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

    Life   Time   Opportunity  
    'Precepts' ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
  • The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

    Life   Get Well   Healing  
  • Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.
  • Walking is man's best medicine.

  • Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

    Life   Art   Science  
    Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”
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Hippocrates

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