"If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might
set the world in the right direction."

-- Martin Kornfeld

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are
famous preservers of youthful looks."

-- Charles Dickens

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."

-- Les Brown

"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would
ever get done."

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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

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

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

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

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
William Osler

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

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The future is today.
William Osler

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

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

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to 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

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

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

 

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than
one way."

-- Marvin Minsky

"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or
act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their
past words and actions lie in light before us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life
is worth saving, how can you give up?"

-- Geraldine Ferraro

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never
lose a holy curiosity."

-- Albert Einstein

"My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend
the rest of my life there."

-- Charles Kettering

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck."

-- Dalai Lama

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel
that crushed it."

-- Mark Twain

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence."

-- Jessica Guidobono

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any
rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to
aid and abet."

-- Tom Robbins

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next
step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will
find his right road."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on
for them to do the same."

-- Ronald Reagan

"Before I married, I had three theories about raising children
and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories."

-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I
can't accept not trying."

-- Michael Jordan

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One
is roots, the other is wings."

-- Hodding Carter, Jr.

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one
step at a time."

-- Linda Shalaway

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We
go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it
doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
that we embark."

-- Barbara Hall

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We
go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it
doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
that we embark."

-- Barbara Hall

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the
credit for doing them."

-- Benjamin Jowett

نخستين منزل عشق اين است كه بگذاريم آنان كه دوست‌شان داريم بی‌كم‌وكاست خودشان باشند؛ نه‌اين‌كه از هر سو بفشاريم‌شان تا در قالب مطلوب ما بگنجند. جز اين اگر باشد، ما تنها عاشق بازتابی از خودمان شده‌ايم كه در وجود آن‌ها يافته‌ايم. / توماس مِرتُن

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The
secret to walking it is, you never look down."

-- Sean Stewart

"You don't have to be a person of influence to be
influential. In fact, the most influential people in my
life are probably not even aware of the things they've
taught me."

-- Scott Adams

"You don't have to be a person of influence to be
influential. In fact, the most influential people in my
life are probably not even aware of the things they've
taught me."

-- Scott Adams

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the
fruit is."

-- H. Jackson Browne

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the
moment you get up in the morning and does not stop
until you get into the office."

-- Robert Frost

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this
time more intelligently."

-- Henry Ford