Quotes About Curiosity

Well, really, this is a very pretty little mystery! What

screened by a young beech. Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder. Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side. "There's the print of Wooden-leg's

man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly strong and stiff." "Peculiar—that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an English paper

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico17

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Ciò che è noto racchiude in sé meno terrore di ciò che è soltanto sussurrato e fantasticato

situation and so curious as to our destination that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.

The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things. As

how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

Se diría que habita en su persona la pasión por el conocimiento detallado y preciso.

Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,' said Stamford, introducing us.

What do you wish to draw my attention to? To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The dog did nothing in the night-time. That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.

El conocimiento siempre da más conocimiento, del mismo modo que el dinero da más interés.

Si queremos encontrar efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos buscarlos en la vida misma, que siempre es más atrevida que cualquier ezfuerzo de la imaginación

I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.

Whatever remains, However improbable

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.