Arthur Conan Doyle on genius
Arthur Conan Doyle105 quotes“Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.”
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
Simon SinekSimon Sinek All geniuses die young.
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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Tony RobbinsTony Robbins Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Bruce LeeBruce Lee A fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a fool but. A Genius can become a fool when he understands he is a Genius.
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