Top 15 William Osler Quotes

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

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.

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.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.