Hall Caine
British novelist and playwright (1853-1931)
William Osler
Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the “Big Four” founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians.
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About the William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the “Big Four” founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the “greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope”. In addition to being a physician he was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. He was passionate about medical libraries and medical history, having founded the History of Medicine SocietyAssociation of Medical Librariansalong with three other people, including Margaret Charlton, the medical librarian of his alma mater, McGill University. He left his own large history of medicine library to McGill, where it became the Osler Library.
30 Quotes by William Osler
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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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 OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 12.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 15.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 17.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 18.
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 OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 19.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 20.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 21.
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 OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The future is today.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 26.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 27.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 28.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 29.
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William OslerCanadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital