“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.”
"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
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy