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«The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism»
«Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
absorb, ambition, each day, energies, entire, heedless, morrow, on the road, satisfy, throw, thrown-away, throw away, travelers, wildest
«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.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Change,
Ideas,
Law and lawyers,
Security
| Keywords:
adapting, and elsewhere, current, elsewhere, misguide, misguided, outlived, static, The Search, usefulness
«Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
equalizer, metal, open sesame, portal, portals, sesame, The Base, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
general practitioner, practitioner, practitioners, senility
«No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.»
«There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.»
«The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.»
«What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?»
«There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
bubbling, defies, from the heart, rigid, significance, spontaneously, The Philosopher, without expression
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