Arthur Conan Doyle |
Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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.
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.
Strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
There is a danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
The chief proof of man`s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.