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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

William Osler
Teaching, Race, Mind
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

William Osler
Memories, Men, May
Sir William Osler (1959). “Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal”

There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.

William Osler
Life, Eye, Caring
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.143, Duke University Press

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

William Osler
Heart, Three, Canada

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

William Osler
Science, Men, Pneumonia
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

William Osler
Art, Moving, Men
Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

William Osler
Fleeting, Dodge, Minutes

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

William Osler
Book, Thinking, Dragons

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

William Osler
Mind, Library, Weakness

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

William Osler
Dream, Song, Heart
Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.38, ACP Press

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