Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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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 cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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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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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .