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William Osler  Quotes
The search for static security – in the law and elsewhere – is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current...

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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

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Communication
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To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

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One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

—William Osler

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them

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

—William Osler

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FuturePast
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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

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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

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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for...

—William Osler

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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts — head, heart and haggis.

—William Osler

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The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

—William Osler

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Canadian Scientist
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature — subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would...

—William Osler

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Achievement
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

—William Osler

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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

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BalanceCrucibleDestiny
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

—William Osler

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Canadian Scientist
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a...

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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

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Canadian Scientist
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The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries...

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

—William Osler

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Canadian Scientist
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, “hearts are broken, heads are turned”.

—William Osler

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

—William Osler

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DogmaIgnorance
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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Canadian Scientist
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To die daily, after the manner of St. Paul, ensures the resurrection of a new man, who makes each day the epitome of life.

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

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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at “full...

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

—William Osler

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Work
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day’s work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past...

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Ambition
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We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS – to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be...

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DoctorMedicinePhysician
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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...

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Canadian Scientist
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

—William Osler

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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

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Canadian ScientistDisease
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds —...

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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

—William Osler

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General
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

—William Osler

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

—William Osler

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Canadian ScientistEditor's PickLife
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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.

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Books And ReadingCanadian Scientist
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Avoid wine and women — choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

—William Osler

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

—William Osler

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AnimalsCanadian Scientist
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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Books And ReadingCanadian Scientist
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

—William Osler

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Canadian Scientist
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

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Canadian Scientist
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day’s work.

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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours

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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

—William Osler

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Grandparents
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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Canadian Scientist
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

—William Osler

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Canadian Scientist
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

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Advice
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

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Fools And Foolishness
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