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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLENever trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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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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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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