I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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 cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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