Quotes about Insight
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
— George Eliot
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
— Isabel Allende