Quotes from William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.

The clean tongue, the clear head and the bright eye are birth rights of each day

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.