Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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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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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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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
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Violence recoils on the violent.
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.