All William Osler Quotes
- Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done… Antagonistic
- Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother… Babe
- It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of… Float
- The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if… Age
- The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… Commonplace
- Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of… Humdrum
- We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. Add
- The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. Disease
- It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. Disease
- He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. All
- One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Duties
- The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. Absurd
- Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. Best
- The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. Experience
- To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. Alone
- Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. Art
- The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. Disease
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. Animal
- Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice… Alone
- It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Absorb
- Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. Conceal
- The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. Atheist
- The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Any
- No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. Blown
- In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. Absolute