Quotes by Sir William Osler

Sir William Osler

Sir William Osler

Canadian Physician

Lived from: 1849 - 1919

Category: Scientists Country: FlagCanada

Born: 12 july 1849 Died: 29 december 1919

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  • Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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  • It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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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.
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  • Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
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  • Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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  • One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
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  • Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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  • Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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  • The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
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  • The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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  • The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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  • The future is today.
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  • The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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  • The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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  • The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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  • The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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  • There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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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.
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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.
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  • We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
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What are the most famous quotes from Sir William Osler?

The two most famous quotes from Sir William Osler are:

  • "Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf."
  • "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."

When did Sir William Osler live?

Sir William Osler was born in 1849 and died in the year 1919.