For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOne must wait till it comes.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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