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William Osler Quotes
Canadian
-
Scientist
July 12
, 1849 -
December 29
, 1919
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
Science
,
Art
,
Medicine
,
Uncertainty
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
Good
,
Great
,
Medical
,
Physician
,
Patient
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
William Osler
Work
,
Today
,
Best
,
Tomorrow
,
Preparation
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
Medical
,
Know
,
Important
,
More
,
Patient
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Water
,
Best
,
Common Sense
,
Soap
,
Sense
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Wise
,
Speech
,
Thought
,
Look
,
Nothing
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
Medicine
,
Physician
,
First
,
Educate
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 sea at all.
William Osler
Sea
,
Sail
,
Medical
,
Go
,
Study
,
Disease
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 manifestations in many organs.
William Osler
Truth
,
Man
,
Medicine
,
Know
,
Important
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
Medicine
,
Physician
,
First
,
Educate
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
,
Medicine
,
Sails
,
Go
,
Books
,
Without
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
,
Physician
,
Old
,
Disease
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
Life
,
Law
,
Know
,
React
,
Disease
,
Alike
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 a double allowance.
William Osler
Life
,
Age
,
Teacher
,
Three
,
Forty
,
Sixty
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
,
Practice
,
Feel
,
You
,
Know
,
Learn
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
Books
,
Buy
,
Easier
,
Than
,
Simpler
,
Much
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
Humility
,
More
,
Disease
,
Than
,
Clinical
The future is today.
William Osler
Future
,
Today
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
Life
,
Here
,
Get
,
Add
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
Experience
,
Value
,
Seeing
,
Wisely
,
Much
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
Ignorance
,
Greater
,
Dogmatism
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
Truth
,
Best
,
Men
,
Know
,
Nothing
,
Never
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
Success
,
Step
,
First Step
,
Become
,
First
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
Wisdom
,
Age
,
Tomorrow
,
Yesterday
,
Become
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
Alone
,
Struggle
,
Effort
,
True
,
Worth
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
Truth
,
Broken
,
Aim
,
Content
,
Seeking
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