If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. — 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
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you… — 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
