William Osler Quotes

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment