Quotes from William Osler

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

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

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

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

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

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

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 the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

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

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Laughter is the music of life.

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