Quote

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

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
Truly
Castles
Dreams
Visions
Broken
Delicious
Says
Heads
Vision
Fantasy
Song
Turned
Dream
Hearts
Heart
Air
Fantasies

More quotes by William Osler

Image
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
William Osler
Image
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
William Osler
Image
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
William Osler
Image
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
Image
To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
William Osler
Image
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Image
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
Image
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
William Osler
Image
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
Image
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
William Osler
Image
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler
Image
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
Image
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
William Osler
Image
Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
Image
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
Image
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
William Osler
Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
Image
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
William Osler