The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. William Osler More Quotes by William Osler More Quotes From William Osler Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public. William Osler healthcommunitybelieve 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. William Osler humilitymenlife Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. William Osler grandpagrandmothergrandma 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 laughterupliftinglife In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. William Osler unattainablebroken-promisesbroken-heart Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off. William Osler commodityshouldfaith 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 spiritualworkmotivational The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. William Osler passionmensex The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day. William Osler clear-headeach-dayeye To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. William Osler settlingcaretrying Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills. William Osler healthpaypeople The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler healthexerciseanimal Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith. William Osler life-iswonderful Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood. William Osler ignoranceattitudecountry Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education. William Osler hard-workeducationscience 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. William Osler simpleattitudescience Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day. William Osler overcomingspiritualthinking A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! William Osler wisefiftymen The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. William Osler teachingcharacterschool Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere. William Osler practice-of-medicinelonelymen
