Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

About Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for...

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

—Arthur Conan Doyle

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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

—Arthur Conan Doyle

What did we care… where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life?

—Arthur Conan Doyle

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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More quotations tagged with “talent”

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

—Brendan Francis

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

—Benjamin Franklin

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

—Baltasar Gracián

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