Psychology Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

21 Psychology quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s pieces weave his famed detective’s analytical lens into musings on the human psyche. The selection offers a mix of logical observation and curiosity about what makes us tick, echoing his storytelling style.

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“Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.”

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“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. - The Adventure of the Dying Detective ”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of…

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“They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained…

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“day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great,…

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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which…

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

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“shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I”

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

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

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“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein…

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I…

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“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”

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

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

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“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat…

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

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“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

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“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through…

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