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Letter "W" » William Osler Quotes
«Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
common good, common sense, soap, soaps, soap and water
«In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.»
«Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, annoyed, complaint, consume, draught, draughts, extra, minor, soot, taciturnity
«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»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
constituted, fragmented, fragments, fruition, glimpses, partial, The Whole Truth, Truth The
«There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
diseases, familiar, familiar with, in truth, manifestations, organs, specialties, specialty
«The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.»
«Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.»
«The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.»
«To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, diseases, How To Deal, medical, medical school, patients, professional life, professor, pupils, school of medicine, warding, wards
«Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
practically, priceless, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, treasurer, treasurers, Treasurer of the, Twenty Five, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
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