William Osler

Medicine Canadian 1849 – 1919 270 quotes

Father of modern medicine, transformed medical education

Quotes by William Osler

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Aequanimitas

The student must be taught to see, to hear, to feel, to smell, and to reason.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

The measure of a man's success is not in the number of his friends, but in the number of his enemies.

Aequanimitas

The value of a teacher is not in what he teaches, but in what he inspires.

Aequanimitas

The practice of medicine is not a trade to be learned, but a profession to be lived.

Aequanimitas

The future belongs to those who are willing to work for it.

Aequanimitas

The life of a physician is one of constant study and observation.

Aequanimitas

The student of medicine should be a student of life.

Aequanimitas

The physician's highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy.

Aequanimitas

The true physician is a philosopher, a humanitarian, and a scientist.

Aequanimitas

The value of a man is not in what he has, but in what he is.

Aequanimitas

The student must be taught to think for himself.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

The physician who knows only medicine knows not even medicine.

Aequanimitas

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

Aequanimitas

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Aequanimitas

The student should not be a passive recipient of knowledge, but an active participant in its acquisition.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

The physician should be a perpetual student.

Aequanimitas

The best way to learn is to teach.

Letter to a student

The chief mental requisite for the physician is an open mind.

Letter to a young doctor

The physician needs a clear head, a kind heart, and a steady hand.

Letter to a medical student