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 DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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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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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A dog reflects the family life.
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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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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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