William Osler

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

- William Osler

"To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study medicine only from books is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- 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

"The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest."

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

"“The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.”"

- William Osler

"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head."

- William Osler

"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish."

- William Osler

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and the art of probability."

- William Osler