"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."

Hippocrates | Medicine | 2 bookmarks

"Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought."

Osler, Sir William | Speakers and Speaking | 2 bookmarks

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle."

Osler, Sir William | Perseverance | 1 bookmarks

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

Osler, Sir William | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks

"Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."

Osler, Sir William | Age and Aging | 2 bookmarks

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire | Medicine | 3 bookmarks

"Some remedies are worse than the disease."

Syrus, Publilius | Medicine | 1 bookmarks

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."

Osler, Sir William | Medicine | 1 bookmarks

"Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country."

Loffler, Charles Lyman | Medicine | 2 bookmarks

"What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?"

Osler, Sir William | Students | 2 bookmarks