Arthur Conan Doyle quotes - page 9

I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
To Sherlock Holmes she is alwayswoman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. View quote
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I am lost without my Boswell. View quote
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We can but try. View quote
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder. View quote
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It is easy to be wise after the event. View quote
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Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his. ]. View quote
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Quite simple, my dear Watson. View quote
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We are used to see that Man despises what he never comprehends. View quote
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. View quote
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognise it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatsoever about you. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. View quote
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I can see nothing,' said I, handing it back to my friend. 'On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences. 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. Some eighty thousand years are supposed to have existed between paleolithic and neolithic man. Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them. But within our father's lives what changes have there not been? The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity. Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more. Primeval man stumbled along with peering eyes, and slow, uncertain footsteps. Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal. View quote
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