All William Osler Quotes
- What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? Courting
- There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an… Acquire
- Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react… Abnormal
- The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on… Age
- There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their… Disease
- Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. Acquire
- Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. Absorb
- The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... Education
- Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little… Accomplished
- Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in… Audience
- The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Duties
- The future is today. Future
- To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to… All
- Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in… Balance
- Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb… Absorb
- The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change,… Achieved
- Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. Age
- The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. Best