Mind Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You are right," he cried with an immense sigh of relief. "It is quite superficial." His face set like flint as he…

— Arthur Conan Doyle