It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler

The future is today.
William Osler

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

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

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