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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
Senses
Sir William Osler

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler

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

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

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

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Ignorance
Sir William Osler

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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Life and Living
Sir William Osler

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

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun