Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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.
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
You see, but you do not observe.
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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