Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

In today’s Washington, with its emphasis on orthodox thinking, such a person could never rise inside the government … This is a great loss, because, as the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us better than all the high-level panels, commissions and interagency meetings.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.

I've done things so unconventionally that I don't think I'd ever be able to lead by someone else's example or the way somebody else has done it. Everybody has their own way of going about things and mine seems to be completely different.

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Stay Weird, Stay Different.