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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.William Osler
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.William Osler
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.William Osler
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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.William Osler
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.William Osler
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.William Osler
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We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.William Osler
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To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.William Osler
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.William Osler
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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.William Osler
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The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.William Osler
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.William Osler
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.William Osler
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.William Osler
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.William Osler
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.William Osler
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.William Osler
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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.William Osler
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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
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.William Osler
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.William Osler
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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.William Osler
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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.William Osler
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.William Osler
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.William Osler
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.William Osler
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The future is today.William Osler