The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. William Osler More Quotes by William Osler More Quotes From William Osler The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. William Osler standards higher teaching Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. William Osler satisfied sin self It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead. William Osler ambitious mind men 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 treasures, 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. William Osler men art moving It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works. William Osler may men memories Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living. William Osler soul heart life The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. William Osler grief joy men To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment William Osler accomplishment secret today Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. William Osler energy ambition past There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. William Osler eye caring life The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. William Osler race teaching mind Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise. William Osler hours exercise time No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. William Osler dream heart song When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. William Osler schemes planning fit Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. William Osler essentials reading men The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. William Osler medicine common way Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. William Osler dodge fleeting minutes Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. William Osler dry heart science That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. William Osler lessons evolution men The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. William Osler majority sleep way
