83 ordspråk av William Osler
William Osler
William Osler föddes den July 12th 1849 och dog den 29 December 1919
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 The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. |
| The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism |
| The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. |
| The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. |
| The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy. |
| The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget |
| The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. |
| The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. |
| 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 Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts -- head, heart and haggis. |
| The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. |
| The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. |
| The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. |
| The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. |
| The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. |
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