William Osler quotes

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path , give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.< /p>

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

The master word [work]. .. is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

I have three personal ideals. One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow...The second ideal has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, toward my professional brethren and toward the patients committed to my care. And the third has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man.