More From Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
- "We can’t command our love, but we can our actions."
- "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
More In Imagination
- "George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I’d do any character he might create."― Peter Mayhew
- "To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter’s imagination."― Frank Auerbach
- "Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."― Lewis Mumford