William Osler Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

  William Osler

  Wise, Art, Strong

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

• 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

  Art, Practice Of Medicine, Calling

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.13, Duke University Press

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

  William Osler

  Art, Science, Medicine

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

• If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

  William Osler

  Art, Medicine, Might

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

  William Osler

  Art, Humility, Grace

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

• There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

  William Osler

  Art, Men, Plain Language

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.194, Ravenio Books

• 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

  Art, Moving, Men

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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