Quotes of Sir William Osler - somelinesforyou

“ One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ”

- Sir William Osler

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

- Sir William Osler

“ Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”

- Sir 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. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! Sir William Osler. ”

- Sir William Osler.

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

- Sir William Osler

“ When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. ”

- Sir William Osler

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

- Sir William Osler

“ It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter — loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance… ”

- Sir William Osler

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

- Sir William Osler

“ The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ”

- Sir William Osler

“ 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. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter — loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance… ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ 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. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”

- Sir William Osler

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

- Sir William Osler

“ I have three personal ideals. One to do the day's work well and not bother about tomorrow. It has been urged that this is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. ”

- Sir William Osler
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