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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
British (Canadian-born) physician [more author details]

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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.: Sir William Osler
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.: Sir William Osler
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.: Sir William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler
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To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.: Sir William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler, to his students
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