Quote

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

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
Mind
Ruts
Misled
Ease
Experiences
Constantly
Minds
Fall
Two

More quotes by William Osler

Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
William Osler
Image
Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
William Osler
Image
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
William Osler
Image
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
William Osler
Image
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
Image
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
William Osler
Image
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
William Osler
Image
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
William Osler
Image
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
William Osler
Image
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
Image
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
William Osler
Image
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
Image
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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
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
Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler