Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
Physician
Professor
Sir William Osler
Sir William
WO
Full
Feeling
Feelings
Music
Without
Life
Egotism
Laughter
More quotes by William Osler
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
William Osler
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
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
William Osler
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
William Osler
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
William Osler
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
William Osler
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
William Osler
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
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
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
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
William Osler
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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
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
Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
William Osler
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
