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"25 William Osler Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 July 1849. Died: 29 December 1919 | Physician |

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Greater Ignorance Dogmatism
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

Person Recover Medicine Disease
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Shut Past Help Tomorrows
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

We Add Life Get
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
Best Preparation Tomorrow Work
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Medicine Science Art Probability
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Physician Treats Disease Patient
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Future Science Control Nations
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In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Science Man World Idea
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Seeking Truth Aim Content
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Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

Ask What Disease Person
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Philosophies Age Wisdom Tomorrow
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day

Think Amount Accomplished Overcome
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Look wise Speech Conceal Thought
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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.

Live Past Future Ambition
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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

Life Faith Great Force
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Step Success Occupation Interested
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Difficult Art Men Observation
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

Natural man Passions Get Beget
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Value Experience Seeing Wisely
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals.

Patient Failure Courage Life
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Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

Faith Man All things Possible
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

Humanity Enemies Fever War
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Simpler Books Read Contents
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

Advice Sought Confirm Position
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William Osler Quotes & Sayings