187 Quotes by William Osler

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

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.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.