All William Osler Quotes
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
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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
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
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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 Osler
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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 Osler
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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 Osler
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
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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 Osler
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
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