“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.”
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
- William Osler
Compassion
"...let me congratulate you on the choice of calling which offers a combination of intellectual and moral interests found in no other profession."
- William Osler
Inspiration
"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
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."
- Vince Gironda
Learning
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning