"It is much simpler to buy books than……" — William Osler
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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William Osler
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118 Quotes by William Osler
William Osler has 118 quotes on this site.
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Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both…
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged…
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them…
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free…
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in…
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one…
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Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste…
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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More Absorb Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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