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William Osler was a renowned Canadian physician, considered one of the founders of modern medical education. Born on July 12, 1849, he passed away on December 29, 1919. Osler made significant contributions to the fields of pathology, clinical medicine, and medical education.

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Famous William Osler Quotes

“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”

Men Mind Has Beens Attitude Special Advantage Skeptical

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable 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.”

Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

“It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.”

Men Mind Persons Body Speed Engines Delicate Ambitious Mind And Body Neurotic Vigorous Robust Indicators Ambitious Man

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“We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences”

Mind Two Fall Ease Ruts Misled

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.”

Feels Mind Problem Language Race Company Teaching Approach Limitation Scholar Great Work Standpoint Great Minds

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.”

Mind Weakness Prejudice Library Fancy Preference Collectors Strength And Weakness Foibles

Author:William Osler

“The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.”

Years Mind Courses Teacher College Conviction Educational Medical Hardest Preparation Engaged Beginners College Courses

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. 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. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.”

Source: Osler's

“It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.”

People Knows Mind Faces Fate Conditions Health Truth Is Medicine Patient Medical Staring Tragic Blindness Tragic Fate

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1849
Died: December 29, 1919
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 135

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