Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Truth
• Virtues
• Departure
• Rank

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • World
  • Country
  • Song

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Everything
  • Genre
  • Almost

• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Architecture

• For every laugh, there should be a tear.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Should
  • Laugh
  • Tear

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Long

• As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  

  John Donne

• Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Creating
  • Credit
  • Primal Virtue

• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Giving

• I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

  

  David Walliams
  • Happy

• I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Liberty
  • Advance
  • Egg

• 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.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Virtues
  • Departure