Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

Arthur Conan Doyle's Popular Quotes

It is more than possible; it is probable.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

‎A change of work is the best rest.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condit…

- Arthur Conan Doyle

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

- Arthur Conan Doyle