William Osler Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

  William Osler

  Health, Exercise, Animal

  In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Science, Simple

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

• I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

  William Osler

  Education, Important, Desire

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.221, Ravenio Books

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