• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  British author 1859-1930
  - +

   0

Check all quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Subjects in these quotes:

1. stagnation
2. cryptogram
3. atmosphere
4. artificial
5. stimulants
6. exaltation

Similar authors

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  British author 56
• J. G. Ballard
  British author 48
• Angela Carter
  British author 39
• Antonia Fraser
  British author of history, novels, biographies and detective 29
• David Gemmell
  British author of heroic fantasy 27
• Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher 26
• Laurence Sterne
  British author 21
• Rebecca West
  British author 20

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations