Famous quotes by »

William Osler

Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician

Update this biography »
Complete biography of William Osler »

0 fans

Sort by:PopularityA - Z

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

– William Osler

Rate it:

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.

– William Osler

Rate it:

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

– William Osler

Rate it:

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

– William Osler

Rate it:

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

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

– William Osler

Rate it:

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

– William Osler

Rate it:

Share your thoughts on William Osler's quotes with the community:

1 Comment

Notify me of new comments via email.

Mark Verrell
Very insightful very good
LikeReply6 years ago

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"William Osler Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 30 Jan. 2025. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/William+Osler+Quotes>.

Missing a quote of William Osler?

Know another good quote of William Osler? Don't keep it to yourself!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Books related to

William Osler

The Life of Sir William Osler
$26.99

from $23.99
William Osler
$32.31

from $3.51
A Way of Life
$8.76

from $4.32
Aequanimitas
from $16.78
Osler's A Way of Life and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations
from $4.89

Our favorite collection of

Famous Authors

Edgar Allan Poe
1809 - 1849
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 - 1821
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 - 1968
Socrates
470 BC - 399 BC
Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961
William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

Who said: "It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realized. But, My Lord, if it needs to be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."?

A William Wallace

B Che Guevara

C Nelson Mandela

D Pep Guardiola