That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. — William Osler Copy Share Image
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! — William Osler Copy Share Image
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. — William Osler Copy Share Image
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in… — 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… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men… — William Osler Copy Share Image
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he… — William Osler Copy Share Image
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of… — 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
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — 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… — 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
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance;… — 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
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — 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
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his… — 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
