William Osler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”

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

“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”

“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”

“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”

“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”

“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.”

“Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”

“Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”