“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”
Hippocrates
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Health Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HEALTH
Health Quotes
Read the best health quotes on wellness, healing and healthy living from Hippocrates, Charaka, Thiruvalluvar, Gandhi, William Osler and more. Words to inspire a healthier life.
“Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.”
Hippocrates
DoctorsExpertise
“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”
Hippocrates
LearningMedicine
“I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgement, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing.”
The Hippocratic Oath
Medical EthicsDoctors
“Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick.”
The Hippocratic Oath
ServicePatient Care
“The physician is only nature's assistant.”
Galen
Natural HealingHumility
“A doctor does not deliberate whether he shall heal.”
Aristotle
DutyDoctors
“Medicine heals diseases of the body; wisdom frees the soul from passions.”
Democritus
Mind And BodyWisdom
“Neglect not the health of thy body; but give it drink and meat in due measure, and also the exercise of which it has need.”
Pythagoras
ExerciseModeration
“Since the human being is not soul alone, nor body alone, but a kind of synthesis of the two, the person in training must take care of both.”
Musonius Rufus
Mind And BodyTraining
“It is a mark of want of genius to spend much time in things relating to the body, as to be long in our exercises, long in eating and drinking.”
Epictetus
BalancePriorities
“We must resist old age; we must compensate for its defects by a watchful care.”
Cicero
AgeingSelf Care
“Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease.”
Plutarch
MedicineDiagnosis
“Bear and endure: this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
Ovid
PatienceHealing
“It is solved by walking.”
Latin Saying
WalkingShort Quotes
“The true men of old slept without dreams and woke without cares.”
Zhuangzi
SleepPeace Of Mind
“One should not suppress the natural urges of the body.”
Charaka
AyurvedaBody
“Lightness of body, capacity for work, firmness, tolerance of difficulties, removal of impurities and stronger digestion are the benefits of exercise.”
Charaka
ExerciseAyurveda
“There is no substance in the world that cannot be used as medicine.”
Charaka
NatureMedicine
“A physician who knows theory but lacks practical skill is like a bird with one wing.”
Sushruta
ExperienceDoctors
“The body is indeed the first instrument for fulfilling one's duty.”
Kalidasa
BodyDuty
“Health is the greatest fortune; wellbeing is the means to every goal.”
Ancient Sanskrit Verse
WellbeingSuccess
“A disease-free life is the wealth that lacks nothing.”
Tamil Proverb
WealthWellbeing
“The first joy of life is a body free from disease.”
Hindi Proverb
HappinessWellbeing
“Pranayama is the control of the breath, the regulating of inhalation and exhalation.”
Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)
BreathingYoga