William Osler Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

  William Osler

  Nursing, Blessing, Nurse

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Nurse and Patient'

• Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Gold, World

  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.32, ACP Press

• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  William Osler

  War, Humanity, Enemy

  Journal of the American Medical Association 26: 999 (1896)

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

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Saint

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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