We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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William Osler was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is known as the "Father of modern medicine" for revolutionizing medical education by focusing on bedside clinical training and the importance of patient care. Osler's textbook "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" is considered a classic in the medical field.
1849–1919·lived 70 years
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.Aequanimitas, p. 45, 1904
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.Osler Aphorisms, From His Bedside Teachings And Writings
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.The student life, 1910
That’s all 5 quotes by William Osler.