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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

William Osler Skepticism Truth

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

~ William Osler

William Osler Experience Wisdom

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

William Osler Balance Crucible Destiny Future Nations Science

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

~ William Osler

William Osler Future Past

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

~ William Osler

William Osler Dogma Ignorance

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

~ William Osler

William Osler Doctor Medicine Physician Profession

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

~ William Osler

William Osler Disease Humor Medicine Science

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

~ William Osler

William Osler Discovery Persuasion Rhetoric Science

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

~ William Osler

William Osler Librarian Libraries

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

~ William Osler

William Osler Best Today Preparation

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

~ William Osler

William Osler Successful Bubble Than

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

~ William Osler

William Osler Life Age Study

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

~ William Osler

William Osler Water Common Sense Sense

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

~ William Osler

William Osler Great Medical Physician

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

William Osler Sea Sail Study

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

William Osler Important Know Patient

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 Osler

William Osler Best Men Know

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 Osler

William Osler Man Medicine Know

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

~ William Osler

William Osler Broken Aim Content

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 Osler

William Osler Men Language Observation

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

William Osler Age Tomorrow Yesterday

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

~ William Osler

William Osler Here Add Get

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

~ William Osler

William Osler First Step Step First

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 Osler

William Osler Practice Know You

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

~ William Osler

William Osler Struggle Effort True
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