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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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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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More quotes by William Osler
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
William Osler
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
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William Osler
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
William Osler
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
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
William Osler
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
William Osler
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
William Osler
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
William Osler
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
William Osler
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
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
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
William Osler
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
