{"author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle","total_quotes":198,"quotes":[{"text":"What is the meaning of it, Watson? Said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. 'What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["meaning-of-life"],"id":6923,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["breaking-the-law","burglary","friends","friendship","law","reliance"],"id":9902,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["reading"],"id":10389,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["brain"],"id":13104,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["dogs","science","smell"],"id":15701,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"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.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["character","dogs","families","family","family-life","pets"],"id":17738,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Holmes,” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["logic","reasoning"],"id":18556,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["humor","life","passion","romance"],"id":21122,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["adventure"],"id":23647,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"To a great mind, nothing is little.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["emotional","inspirational","lovely","reality-of-life"],"id":33922,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":198,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}