Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
—William Osler
Topics: Advice
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
—William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.
—William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
—William Osler
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
—William Osler
Topics: Work Ethics, Work, Planning, Excellence, Preparation, Future
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential…
—William Osler
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
—William Osler
Topics: Teaching
Best possible way to prepare for tomorrow
is to concentrate all your intelligence,
on doing’s today’s work superbly today.
—William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable, and must be content with finding broken portions.
—William Osler
Topics: Truth
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
Topics: Truth
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise … .
—William Osler
We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happier.
—William Osler
Topics: Happiness
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