William Osler > Quotes

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
― Sir William Osler

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

“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”
― William Osler

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

“Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.”
― William Osler

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”
― William Osler

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

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
― Sir William Osler

“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

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”
― William Osler

“Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”
― William Osler

“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”
― William Osler

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”
― William Osler

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
― Sir William Osler

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

“Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.”
― William Osler

“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

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
― Sir William Osler

“The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”
― Sir William Osler

“Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.”
― William Osler

“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.”
― Sir William Osler

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

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”
― sir william osler

“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”
― William Osler

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it”
― William Osler

“Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.”
― Sir William Osler

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”
― William Osler

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”
― William Osler, The Life of Pasteur

“One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.”
― William Osler, Aequanimitas

“To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment”
― William Osler