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William Osler Inspirational Quotes (126)

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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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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 medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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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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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.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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