Hippocrates Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Ignorance, Practice

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.784

• I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Doctors, Views

  The Physician's Oath (translation byW. H. S. Jones)

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

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.

• I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Benefits, Patient

  Hippocrates (2000). “Of the Epidemics”, p.43, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

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

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