The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

—Sir William Osler

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

—Sir William Osler

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

—Sir William Osler

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

—Sir William Osler

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

—Sir William Osler

Every dogma has its day.

—Anthony Burgess

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

—Flannery O'Connor

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.

—G. K. Chesterton