William Osler Quotes

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

William Osler

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

William Osler

The future is today.

William Osler

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

William Osler

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

William Osler

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

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

William Osler

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