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 DOYLEWhat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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