Sir William Osler quotes

" In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. " # Science and Scientists

" Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. " # Past

" The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. " # Medicine # Desire # Humankind

" The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. " # Ignorance # Teachers and Teaching # Learning

" Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. " # Age and Aging # Marriage # Retirement

" The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. " # Doctors # Education # Duty

" Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. " # Speakers and Speaking # Speech # Wisdom

" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. " # Age and Aging # Wisdom # Philosophers and Philosophy

" We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. " # Life and Living

" To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. " # Perseverance # Effort # Ideals and Idealism