Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

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.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.