William Osler Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Osler
William Osler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![William Osler quotes: Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. William Osler quotes: Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-682882.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1788232.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1651914.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1382713.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. William Osler quotes: It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-2135075.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ... William Osler quotes: The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1731678.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-756909.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1149628.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. William Osler quotes: If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1125313.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences William Osler quotes: We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1223302.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. William Osler quotes: The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-375848.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. William Osler quotes: When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-2132181.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-204555.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues. William Osler quotes: There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-747211.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. William Osler quotes: It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1722036.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances. William Osler quotes: The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-830517.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1920992.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1880054.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-2162343.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler quotes: In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1460096.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler quotes: It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1461420.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. William Osler quotes: No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1499815.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. William Osler quotes: Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-313967.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-554845.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. William Osler quotes: The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-532313.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. William Osler quotes: To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-401228.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-378558.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-346271.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-336910.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-569711.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise ... William Osler quotes: Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-295695.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. William Osler quotes: Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-171680.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-124305.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis. William Osler quotes: The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-1023432.jpg)
![William Osler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/william-osler-quotes-999153.jpg)
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Osler
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