Sir William Osler Quotes & Quotations

Sir William Osler Quotes

» Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

» The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

» 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.

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

» The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

» The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

» 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. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

» Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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

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

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