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 DOYLEThere is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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A change of work is the best rest.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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The game is afoot.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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