To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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One must wait till it comes.
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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.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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