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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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