William Osler Quotes (73 Quotes)

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours

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

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

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

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

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.

Without faith a man can do nothing, with it all things are possible.

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.

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts -- head, heart and haggis.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.

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

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.