Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.”
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“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
-- Arthur Conan DoyleSource : Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub
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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
-- Arthur Conan DoyleSource : The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)
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“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
-- Arthur Conan DoyleSource : Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity"
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“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”
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“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”
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“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
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“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”
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“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
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“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
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“My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.”
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“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
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“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.”
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“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
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“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
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“It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.”
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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
-- Arthur Conan DoyleSource : Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).
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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
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“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”
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“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.”
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“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
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“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
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“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”
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“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
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“Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.”
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“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
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“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”
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“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
-- Arthur Conan Doyle
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