We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen 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.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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