The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Patience, Suffering, Life Lessons, Virtue, Human Nature
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“Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime, Originality, Boredom, Detective Work, Societal Change
Arthur Conan Doyle Crime, Originality, Boredom, Detective Work, Societal Change“The fair sex is your department.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Gender Roles, Expertise, Division Of Labor, Stereotypes, Interpersonal Skills
Arthur Conan Doyle Gender Roles, Expertise, Division Of Labor, Stereotypes, Interpersonal Skills“Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger – not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Emotion, Appetite, Literature Criticism, Human Nature, Physiology
Arthur Conan Doyle Emotion, Appetite, Literature Criticism, Human Nature, Physiology“It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Deduction, Wealth, Observation, Family Relations, Social Status
Arthur Conan Doyle Deduction, Wealth, Observation, Family Relations, Social Status“Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Justice, Retribution, Time, Consequences, Morality
Arthur Conan Doyle Justice, Retribution, Time, Consequences, Morality“So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Human Nature, Motivation, Psychology, Self-awareness, Complexity
Arthur Conan Doyle Human Nature, Motivation, Psychology, Self-awareness, Complexity“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Human Mind, Science, Focus, Nature, Personal Matters
Arthur Conan Doyle Human Mind, Science, Focus, Nature, Personal Matters“From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Logic, Deduction, Inference, Observation, Intellectual Ability
Arthur Conan Doyle Logic, Deduction, Inference, Observation, Intellectual Ability“Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Inspiration, Genius, Influence, Intellectual Stimulation, Human Potential
Arthur Conan Doyle Inspiration, Genius, Influence, Intellectual Stimulation, Human Potential“My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Love, Restraint, Morality, Wealth, Character Assessment
Arthur Conan Doyle Love, Restraint, Morality, Wealth, Character Assessment“For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Redemption, Potential, Encouragement, Personal Growth, Second Chances
Arthur Conan Doyle Redemption, Potential, Encouragement, Personal Growth, Second Chances“On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Duty, Importance, Crime Prevention, Detective Work, Humorous Observation
Arthur Conan Doyle Duty, Importance, Crime Prevention, Detective Work, Humorous Observation“A man with so large a brain must have something in it.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Intelligence, Wisdom, Potential, Brain Size, Mental Capacity
Arthur Conan Doyle Intelligence, Wisdom, Potential, Brain Size, Mental Capacity“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery, Strangeness, Perception, Logical Thinking, Investigative Mindset
Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery, Strangeness, Perception, Logical Thinking, Investigative Mindset“A 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.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge, Memory, Organization, Intellect, Mental Capacity
Arthur Conan Doyle Knowledge, Memory, Organization, Intellect, Mental Capacity“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Affability, Deception, Danger, Human Nature, Social Interaction
Arthur Conan Doyle Affability, Deception, Danger, Human Nature, Social Interaction“The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact – of absolute undeniable fact – from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Investigation, Facts, Theory, Deduction, Methodology
Arthur Conan Doyle Investigation, Facts, Theory, Deduction, Methodology“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Optimism, Faith, Perspective, Human Limitations, Perseverance
Arthur Conan Doyle Optimism, Faith, Perspective, Human Limitations, Perseverance“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Deduction, Error, Stimulation, Truth-seeking, Intellectual Partnership
Arthur Conan Doyle Deduction, Error, Stimulation, Truth-seeking, Intellectual Partnership