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| The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease | | Science | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism | | Ignorance | |
| The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. | | Uncategorized | |
| The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget | | Passion | |
| The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. | | Uncategorized | |
| The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts -- head, heart and haggis. | | Uncategorized | |
| The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. | | Change; Ideas; Law and lawyers; Security | |
| The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. | | Uncategorized | |
| The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. | | Uncategorized | |
| The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. | | Uncategorized | |
