William Osler Quotes

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler

Life, Here, Add

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler

Good, Great, Patient

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler

Important, Patient, 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.
William Osler

Sea, Books, Studies

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Medicine, Masses, Duties

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 you can become expert.
William Osler

Alone, Become, Learn

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

Age, Wisdom, Tomorrow

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler

Experience, Value, Seeing

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

Best, Sense, Water

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

Greatest, Desire, Perhaps

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

Wise, Nothing, Thought

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler

Men, Best, Truth

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

Alone, True, Struggle

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler

Ignorance, Greater, Dogmatism

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler

Read, Books, Simpler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

Life, Young, Old

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

Art, Science, Medicine

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
William Osler

Work, Best, Today

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 observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

Men, Art, Difficult

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Medicine, Masses, Duties

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler

Teacher, Successful, Longer

The future is today.
William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler

Two, Natural, Primal

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler

Humility, Disease, Clinical

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 alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: July 12, 1849

Died: December 29, 1919

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