Arthur Conan Doyle quotes - page 4

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? View quote
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. View quote
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. View quote
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. View quote
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. View quote
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. View quote
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. View quote
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
One must wait till it comes. View quote
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...but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. View quote
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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. View quote
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. View quote
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own. View quote
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure. View quote
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. View quote
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. View quote
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. View quote
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. View quote
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. View quote
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. View quote
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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me. View quote
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