Health Quotes

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”

Herophilus

“A wise man ought to realise that health is his most valuable possession.”

Hippocrates

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future.”

Hippocrates

“A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.”

Hippocrates

“The physician treats, but nature heals.”

Latin Proverb

“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”

Galen

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.”

Paracelsus

“The great error of our day in the treatment of the human body is that physicians separate the soul from the body.”

Plato

“Who is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind and a docile nature.”

Thales

“A man in health, who is both vigorous and his own master, should bind himself to no rules.”

Celsus

“What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.”

Lucretius

“Consider how many physicians are dead after often contracting their eyebrows over the sick.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Provide things relating to the body no further than mere use: as food, drink, clothing and house.”

Epictetus

“The sages did not treat those who were already ill; they instructed those who were not yet ill.”

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine

“To administer medicine to diseases which have already developed is like beginning to dig a well after one has become thirsty.”

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine

“Superior doctors prevent the disease; mediocre doctors treat the disease before it is evident; inferior doctors treat the full-blown disease.”

Sun Simiao

“Happiness and sorrow, nourishment and emaciation, strength and weakness, knowledge and ignorance, life and death, all depend on sleep.”

Charaka

“A healthy person should wake up in the Brahma muhurta, the hour before dawn, to protect his life.”

Vagbhata

“Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.”

Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)

“If the body perishes, the soul perishes too; so I learned the way to nurture the body, and in nurturing the body, I nurtured the soul.”

Tirumoolar

“The three humours, wind and bile and phlegm, if in excess or deficiency, cause disease, as the learned teach.”

Thiruvalluvar

“As pleasure dwells with him who eats in moderation, so disease dwells with him who eats too much.”

Thiruvalluvar

“He that sleeps feels not the toothache.”

William Shakespeare

“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, and where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

William Shakespeare

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?”

William Shakespeare