“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Alone, Lonely, Friends
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Mistakes, strange, Mystery
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Knowledge, explanation, inelligence
“You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Universe, Stars, Solar System
“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. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a l…”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Brains, Knowledge, Facts, Intelligence
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Nature, Ideas, open-minded
“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Quiet, Depression, Alone
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Imagination, Horror, Pain
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries w…”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Music, Words, Songs
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: minds, Brains, Knowledge