Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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You see, but you do not observe.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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