“...let me congratulate you on the choice of calling which offers a combination of intellectual and moral interests found in no other profession.”
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
- William Osler
Compassion
"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
Learning
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."
- William Osler
Leadership
"It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has."
- William Osler
Insight
"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
Focus
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration