100+ Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Destruction Human Moments Suffering World
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Confound Mistake Mystery Strange
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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Change Clue Dam Inspirational Truth
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Mind Problem Rebel Work
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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Crime Obvious Rule Simplicity
What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Discover Invention Man
I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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Agree Modest Virtue
The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Mathematics Reason Science
I 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.
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Alone Dump Ending Healing Mouth Thinking Time
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Imagination Mother Truth
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Balance Choose Imagination Probable Science
There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Fools Trouble Wit
There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Eyes Light Loud Woman Women Empowerment
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Ghost Love Old Worst
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Elimination Impossible Inspirational Truth
I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Ending Revenge Settle Want World
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Business Done Justice Man One Liner
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Important Infinite Inspirational Life Positive
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Dramatic Resistance Touch
I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Brain Intellectual
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Conceive Dare Existence Life Place
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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Away Brain Furniture Library Man Room Stock Want
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Evil Himself Indeed Man Woman
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Danger Delusion Snatch Tiger Woman
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Mind Noble Ruin
If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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Acceptance Assure Cheer Death Destruction Interest Public
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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Crime Doctor Wrong

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