But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
