Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Italians think with their heads.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.