Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
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But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.