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Brain Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
- He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected…
- I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.…
- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,…
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to…
- I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
- 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…
- I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
- It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
- I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,…
- Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I…
- It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
- For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
- There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I…
- To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
- You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds --…
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