Arthur Conan Doyle And His Words Of Wisdom

1. We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

2. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

  

3. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

7. There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

8. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

9. 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.

10. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

11. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

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

13. The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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

15. 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 away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

16. Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

17. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

18. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

19. I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

20. London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

21. The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

22. A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

23. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

24. For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

25. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

26. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

27. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

28. The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

29. Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

30. You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

31. Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

32. As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

33. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

34. His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

35. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

36. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

37. There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

38. I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

39. Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

40. To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

William Shakespeare And His Words Of Wisdom

1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
 
2. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
 
3.Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
 
4. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
 
5. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
 
6. If music be the food of love, play on.
 
7. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

8. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

9. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

10. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

11. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

12. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

13. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

14. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

15.The course of true love never did run smooth.

16. Listen to many, speak to a few.

17. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

18. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

19. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

20. It is a wise father that knows his own child.

21. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

22. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

23. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

24. No legacy is so rich as honesty.

25. Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

26. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.

27. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

28. An overflow of good converts to bad.

29. Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

30. The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

31. How poor are they that have no patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

32. Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

33. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

34. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

35. Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

36. What’s done can’t be undone.

37. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

38. The golden age is before us, not behind us.

39. They do not love that do not show their love.

40. The object of art is to give life a shape.

Elvis Presley And His Words Of Wisdom

 

Dancing

 

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

 

Life

 

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

 

Adversity

 

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

 

Music

 

"We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lot of times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight… gospel songs. We grew up with it. It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine."

 

"Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess."

 

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

 

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

 

"Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth."

 

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."

 

Stage Fright

 

"I've never gotten over what they call stage--fright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on."

 

"The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again'."

 

Other Actors

 

I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.

 

Philosophy

 

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

 

Personal Life

 

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

 

Happiness

 

I believe the key to happiness is: someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to.

 

Criticism

 

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

 

Humanity

 

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image.

 

Philosophy

 

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

Isaac Newton And His Words Of Wisdom

 

1. "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

 

2. "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

 

3. "No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."

4. "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

 

5. "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."

 

6. "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

 

7. "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."

8. "I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."

9. "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

 

10. "We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

 

11. "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

 

12. "This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

13. "If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

 

14. "About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition"

15. "It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

 

16. "Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers"

 

17. "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

 

18. "The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree."

 

19. "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

 

20. "Yet one thing secures us what ever betide,/ The scriptures assures us the Lord will provide."

Alfred Bernhard Nobel And His Words Of Wisdom

1. Contentment is the only real wealth.

2. A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

3. One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

4. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

5. A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

6. It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

7. On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

8. Justice is to be found only in imagination.

9. Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

10. I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

11. Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

12. Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

13. I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

14. I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

15. Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

16. Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

17. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

18. Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

19. For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

20. Lying is the greatest of all sins.

21. A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

22. Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.