Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
Adventure is worthwhile.
— Aristotle
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
— Aristotle
And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?
— Aristotle
baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
— Aristotle
whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
— Aristotle
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle