William Osler Quotes

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, pr...

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea firs...

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

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

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

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery ...

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and eve...

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already ...

The future is today.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important dise...

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that af...

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterda...

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully obser...

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books wi...

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

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

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

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to ...

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.