It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that everyone has inner reasoning or potential that can be discovered with patience.
Arthur Conan Doyle's quote highlights the idea that within each person lies the potential for understanding and insight, even if it is not immediately apparent. The metaphor of 'groping' for this reason suggests a careful and patient exploration of one's thoughts and feelings, indicating that self-discovery is a journey that may require time and effort to uncover one's true capabilities and wisdom.
Themes
ReasonPatienceSelf-DiscoveryWisdomExploration
In practice
Example use cases
During a team-building workshop, I shared this quote to encourage individuals to seek deeper understanding of each other's ideas.
More from Arthur Conan Doyle
All quotes βI had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
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.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
Similar quotes
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel UllmanRead
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
Seth GodinRead
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine MansfieldRead
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.
Chris SaccaRead