My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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