For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECircumstantial 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.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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