Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his...
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Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.