Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Source
  • Fish

• I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Source
  • Joys

• Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Remember
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Words

• My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Music
  • Dreams
  • Sound

• We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Dreams
  • Ocean
  • River

• How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Quality
  • Certain

• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Source
  • Chief
  • Thief

• That's a very, very good team. But we're not playing as well as we have been. And what did we shoot from the foul line, 18 for 30? That's not what we do.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Team
  • Shoot
  • Foul

• The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • End
  • Movement

• Authority is no source for Truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Authority
  • Source

• Ideas are the source of all things.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • All Things

• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • Inventor

• Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

  

  Sophocles
  • Lives
  • Source
  • Gain

• Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

  

  Sophocles
  • Knowledge
  • Learn
  • Source

• Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Night
  • Source
  • Restriction

• According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Creation
  • Teaching
  • Answers

• I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Important
  • Love
  • Religion

• The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don't really see it.

  

  Edward Greenspon
  • Mind
  • Difference
  • Chooses

• Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Source
  • Streams
  • Foul