Quote

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

William Osler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
Physician
Professor
Sir William Osler
Sir William
WO
Bubble
Floats
Bubbles
Teaching
Longer
Teacher
Successful
Iridescent
Blown

More quotes by William Osler

Image
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Image
We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler
Image
The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
Image
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
William Osler
Image
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
William Osler
Image
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
Image
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.
William Osler
Image
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
William Osler
Image
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
William Osler
Image
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
William Osler
Image
Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
Image
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
William Osler
Image
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
William Osler
Image
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler
Image
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
William Osler
Image
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William Osler
Image
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
Image
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
Image
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William Osler
Image
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
William Osler