Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
-
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
Larry Bird
-
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
-
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
-
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute
-
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee
-
Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
-
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Sam Kean
-
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
-
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
Saint Bernard
-
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
-
No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
Sam Kean
-
I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.
Andre Rieu
