Quotes of William Osler - somelinesforyou

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

- 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

“ 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

“ To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. ”

- William Osler

“ No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ”

- William Osler

“ The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ”

- William Osler

“ There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. ”

- 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

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

- 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

“ We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. ”

- William Osler

“ We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. ”

- William Osler

“ Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. ”

- William Osler

“ Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. ”

- 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

“ The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. ”

- 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

“ The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. ”

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

“ The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. ”

- 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

“ Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. ”

- 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

“ We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. ”

- 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

“ It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ”

- William Osler

“ Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. ”

- William Osler
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