It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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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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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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