William Osler - The quotable Osler

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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

William Osler

Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is today controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.

William Osler

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

William Osler

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

William Osler

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

William Osler

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

William Osler

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

William Osler