William Osler Quotes

Canadian - Scientist July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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