Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals this alone is worth the struggle.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
