More - William Osler Quotes

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

William Osler

 

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

William Osler

 

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

William Osler

 Canadian Scientist Disease

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

William Osler

 

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

William Osler

 

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours

William Osler

 

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

William Osler

 

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

William Osler

 Animals Canadian Scientist

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

William Osler

 

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease

William Osler

 Disease