We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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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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