William Osler Quotes - Page 2

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• 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'

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• 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”

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• There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

  William Osler

  Doctors, Two, Brain

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Teaching and Thinking'

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• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

  William Osler

  Common Sense, Water, Soap

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

  William Osler

  Essentials

  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.226, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Faith, Men, All Things

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

  William Osler

  Ignorance, Diagnosis, Beats

  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.102, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Accomplishment, Secret, Today

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Life, Health, Law

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

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• Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

  William Osler

  Lying, Soul, Vocation

  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.55, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  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.76, ACP Press

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• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

  William Osler

  Doctors, Pills, Looks

  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.181, ACP Press

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• A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

  William Osler

  Physicians, Fool, Patient

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 1 (William B. Bean)

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• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  William Osler

  Birthday, Truth, Philosophy

  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.18, ACP Press

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• Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

  William Osler

  Taken, Advice, Already Taken

  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.228, ACP Press

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• The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

  William Osler

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  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.215, ACP Press

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• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

  William Osler

  Perseverance, Struggle, Effort

  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.4, ACP Press

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• Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

  William Osler

  Spiritual, Thinking, Overcoming

  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.37, ACP Press

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• The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

  William Osler

  Science, Mazes, Development

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.118, Duke University Press

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• It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

  William Osler

  Book, Easier

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• 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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• One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Men, Mind

  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.9, ACP Press

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• Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

  William Osler

  Half, Blind, Deaf

  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.99, ACP Press

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• A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

  William Osler

  Health, Doctors, Community

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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