By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction

Quote by William Osler

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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the...

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the...

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his...

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his...

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we...

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we...

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn...

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn...

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but...

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but...

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease...

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease...

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so...

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so...

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine...

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine...

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness...

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness...

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably...

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably...

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken...

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken...

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of...

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of...

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when...

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when...

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them