William Osler Quotes
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.