Quote

Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.

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
Things
Men
Possible
Faith
Without
Nothing

More quotes by 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
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
Image
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
William Osler
Image
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
William Osler
Image
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
William Osler
Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
William Osler
Image
There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
William Osler
Image
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
Image
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.
William Osler
Image
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
William Osler
Image
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
William Osler
Image
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
William Osler
Image
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
William Osler
Image
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Image
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William Osler
Image
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
William Osler