William Osler Quotes


Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler best 162
Banish the future. Live only for the hour and its allotted work. Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day. William Osler Present 135
Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith-the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible. William Osler Faith 114
Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. William Osler Age 110
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler Uncategorized 107
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. William Osler Success 98
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. William Osler Medicine 98
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler Speeches 92
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature that distinguishes men from animals. William Osler Medicine 88
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. William Osler Planning 87
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. William Osler Art 86
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. William Osler Instinct 84
The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day. William Osler Day 84
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. William Osler Alone 83
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler Medicine 83
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. William Osler Life 80
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. William Osler Retirement 71
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! William Osler Aging 70
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. William Osler Teaching 70
Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children. One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician. William Osler Medicine 69
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. William Osler Education 68
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. William Osler art 67
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. William Osler Truth 65
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. William Osler Senses 63
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? William Osler Learning 60
We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happier. William Osler Happiness 59
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler Doctors 58
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. William Osler Uncategorized 57
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. William Osler Age 52
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. William Osler Persistence 51
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. William Osler Uncategorized 50
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler Science 47
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler Experience 43
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. William Osler Future 43
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. William Osler Ignorance 42
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. William Osler Apathy 42
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. William Osler Uncategorized 40
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler Life 38
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. William Osler Uncategorized 37
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable, and must be content with finding broken portions. William Osler Truth 36
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. William Osler Advice 34
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. William Osler Doctors 33

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