The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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