“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”
"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
"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
"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
Education
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Vision is not what your eyes see, but an image that your brain comprehends."
- Touko Aozaki
Insight
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"
- Steven Wright
Insight
"The shell of an oyster only hides the pearl inside."
- Jack
Insight