Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DLwas an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 May 1859
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
funny-inspirational knowledge men
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
believe knowledge thinking
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
success education knowledge
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
knowledge should-have long
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
time knowledge useless
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
knowledge may facts
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
mistake writing what-matters
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
inspirational life god
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
eliminate matter whatever
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
song autumn light
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
humorous sarcasm wells
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
humorous sarcasm science
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
men portraits aging
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.