Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

About Arthur Conan Doyle:

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall ...

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I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

Arthur 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 Doyle

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."

Arthur Conan Doyle

What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen h...

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Absence of proof is not proof of absence

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All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is ...

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What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset...

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At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

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Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

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Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the ...

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But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That beh...

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For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

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Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

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The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

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All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

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A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be ...

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Author Bio

  • NameArthur Conan Doyle
  • DescriptionScottish physician and writer
  • AliasesSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
  • BornMay 22, 1859
  • DiedJuly 7, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPhysician; Writer; Poet; Cricketer; Novelist; Politician; Essayist; Playwright; Autobiographer; Librettist
  • WorksSherlock Holmes Canonical Works; The Lost World
  • AwardsVenerable Order Of Saint John; Deputy Lieutenant