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Letter "W" » William Osler Quotes
«The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.»
«The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.»
«The future is today.»
«Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.»
«Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.»
«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.»
«Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.»
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
dragons, fallacies, fallacy, fiery, interpose, interposed, interposing, librarian, librarians, Libraries, manage, public libraries, public library, public servant, reader, servants, the books, The Librarian, The Public Interest
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