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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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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The game is afoot.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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