Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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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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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
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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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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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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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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
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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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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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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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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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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.