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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Common sense
Water
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Thought
Nothing
Speech
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
Art
Science
Medicine
Uncertainty
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler
Successful
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
Men
Truth
Being
Content
Nothing
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
Disease
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
First
Medicine
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
Truth
Content
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
Ignorance
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
Disease
The future is today.
William Osler
Future
Today
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
First
Medicine
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
Animals
Desire
Man
Medicine
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
Practice
Senses
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
Effort
Ideals
Struggle
Worth