Natural Quote by William Osler Download Open image “The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.” — William Osler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Natural Nature Passion Two
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence. — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image