“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” — William Osler Copy Share Image
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience.… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room… — William Osler Copy Share
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people… — William Osler Copy Share
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless… — William Osler Copy Share
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler Copy Share
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new… — William Osler Copy Share
