Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHealthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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