William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
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
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler
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
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
William Osler
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
The future is today.
William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler