Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. - William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. - William Osler
Il n’est pas nécessaire d’espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer."Roughly translates as: "It is not necessary to be hopeful in order to try, nor to be successful in order to persevere. - William of OrangeNassau
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. - Sir William Osler
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. - William O. Douglas
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. - William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. - Sir William Osler
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. - Sir William Osler
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. - William O. Douglas
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. - William Osler
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. - Liam O'Flaherty
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)] - William O. Douglas
May I love Him whom to love is to live indeed. - William of Saint-Thierry
Manners maketh man. - William of Wykeham
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. - William O. Douglas
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. - Sir William Osler
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment. - William Osler
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas
The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government. - William O. Douglas
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs. - William Osler
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. - William O. Douglas
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. - William Ockham