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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.
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Sir William Osler
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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Sir William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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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.
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Sir William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Sir William Osler, to his students

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