Arthur Conan Doyle on brain
Arthur Conan Doyle105 quotes“I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle To a great mind, nothing is little.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle A dog reflects the family life.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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