Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.