"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration……" — Arthur Conan Doyle

"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…

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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to… — Milan Kundera
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;… — Willa Cather
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most… — Jack Kornfield
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how… — Swami Vivekananda
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of… — Eric Temple Bell
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can… — Walther Bothe
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all,… — Joseph Murray

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