Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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