Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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