Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. — 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 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
Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Image
