Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.

  The Stark Munro Letters (1894)

  • Knowledge

• The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

  The Boer War (1902)

  • Morality
  • Wisdom

• Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

  The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context

  • Animals
  • Fear

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy