187 Quotes by William Osler

He who knows syphilis knows medicine.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Beware of people who call you ‘Doc.’ They rarely pay their bills.

To do today’s work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment.

Taking a lady’s hand gives her confidence in her physician.

In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake – many of them at any rate – to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

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

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.