Arthur Conan Doyle: Doing

Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish physician and author. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“You see, but you do not observe.”

Arthur Conan Doyle A Scandal in Bohemia

Source: A Scandal in Bohemia

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

People , World , Question

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”

Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Source: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

People , Business

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

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Women , Secret , Nature

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Red Headed League

Life , Problem , Effort , Help

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

Thinking , Time

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

Smile , Beauty

“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Quoted in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (New York: Norton & Company, 2009, ISBN 978-0-393-06595-4), p. 137 https://books.google.it/books?id=vqucAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137
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Pain , World , Way , Support

“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious Atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all this is abhorrent to me. The spirit-guides do not insist upon these aspects of religion.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Quoted in The Life of Faith by Dr. A. T. Schofield, which was quoted in Heresies Exposed by William C. Irvine (Loizeaux Brothers, Neptune, New Jersey, 1921, p. 179)
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Religion