It is my business to know what other people do not know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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One must wait till it comes.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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