The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. -William Osler Success
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. -William Osler Alone
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. -William Osler Art
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. -William Osler Medical
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. -William Osler Alone
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. -William Osler Teacher
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. -William Osler Great
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. -William Osler Truth
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. -William Osler Medical
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. -William Osler Age
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. -William Osler Wisdom
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. -William Osler Good
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. -William Osler Teacher
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. -William Osler Truth
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. -William Osler Medical
