Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer and Physician
Date of Birth | : | 22 May, 1859 |
Date of Death | : | 07 Jul, 1930 |
Place of Birth | : | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Profession | : | Writer, Physician |
Nationality | : | British |
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction.
Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother’s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.”
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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.