It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. |
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. |
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. |
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at "full speed ahead." |
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works. |
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. |
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. |
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. |
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. |
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. |
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, "hearts are broken, heads are turned". |
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition |
Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible |
Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith. |
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work. |