The Quotable Osler
A source page for quotes linked to William Osler.
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Source: Osler's
“Laughter is the music of life.”
Source: Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal
Source: Osler's
“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”
Source: Osler's
“The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.”
Source: Osler's
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.”
Source: The educational essays
Source: The educational essays
“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”
“To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment”
“There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.”
Source: Wm. Osler: the continuing education
Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science
“To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]
Source: Osler's
Source: Aequanimitas
“Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
Source: Aequanimitas
Source: Aequanimitas
Source: Osler's
“Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.”
“Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.”
“Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.”