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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
— William Osler
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
— William Osler
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
— William Osler
There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. - SIR WILLIAM OSLER
— Sidney Sheldon
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby ...
— William Osler
Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.
— William Osler
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
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...
— William Osler
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
— William Osler
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
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
— William Osler
Laughter is the music of life.
— William Osler
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
— William Osler
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
— William Osler
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
— William Osler
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
— William Osler
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
— William Osler
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
— William Osler
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
— William Osler
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
— William Osler
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
— William Osler
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
— William Osler
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
— William Osler
Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.
— William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
— William Osler
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
— 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
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
— William Osler
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
— 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
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
— William Osler
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
— William Osler
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
— William Osler
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
— William Osler
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
— William Osler
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
— William Osler
The future is today.
— William Osler
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
— William Osler
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
— William Osler
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
— William Osler
The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
— William Osler
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
— William Osler
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
— William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
— William Osler
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
— William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
— William Osler
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
— William Osler
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
— William Osler
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles ...
— William Osler
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
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
— William Osler
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
— William Osler
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
— William Osler
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
— William Osler
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
— William Osler
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
— William Osler
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
— William Osler
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all
— William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
— William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
— William Osler
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
— William Osler
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
— William Osler
One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.
— William Osler
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
— William Osler
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
— William Osler
The person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.
— William Osler
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
— William Osler
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
— William Osler
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise ...
— William Osler
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
— William Osler
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
— William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
— William Osler
