All William Osler Quotes
- The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis. All
- 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… Art
- It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious… Ahead
- For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. Apt
- The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and… Book
- 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 of… Absorb
- 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… Ability
- Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. Besets
- We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences Constantly
- Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . .… Care
- Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room… Bedside
- A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. Fool
- 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… Bought
- 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… Accept
- Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. Bore
- Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. Enemies
- Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. Egotism
- Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health. Air
- The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. Disease
- Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow… Absorb
- It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to… Age
- 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… Art
- No man is really happy or safe without a hobby ... Happy
- The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. Cold
- As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a… Advances