William Osler quotes

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

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

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

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

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.

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

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

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.

The future is today.

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.