Quotes by William Osler

William Osler

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds – or tries to add – the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

Book

Character

Men

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

Community

Doctors

Health

Avoid wine and women – choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Girl

Wife

Wine

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!

Disappointment

Life

Strong

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

Doctors

Men

Tragedy

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

Lonely

Men

Practice Of Medicine

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

Dry

Heart

Science

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Half

Physicians

Records

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Book

Practice Of Medicine

Sea

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Art

Medicine

Might

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Canada

Care

Character

Children

Clear Head

College

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Common Sense

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Quotes by William Osler

William Osler

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

Avoid wine and women – choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

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!

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

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