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.

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"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

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Education

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

Education