William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

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

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

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

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

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

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.

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.

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

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.