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Category: William Osler

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.

Man, Medicine, Know

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.

Best, Men, Know

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

Important, Know, Patient

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.

Sea, Sail, Study

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

Good, Great, Physician

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Water, Common Sense, Sense

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.

Life, Age, Study

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

Successful, Bubble, Than

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.

Best, Today, Preparation

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

dogma, ignorance

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

discovery, persuasion, rhetoric, science

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