Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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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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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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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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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
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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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The fair sex is your department.
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
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Violence recoils on the violent.
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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
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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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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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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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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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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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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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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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Anything is better than stagnation.