It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEKeep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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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 most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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