William Osler Quotes
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.
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Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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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.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.