Arthur Conan Doyle quotes - page 2

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. View quote
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. View quote
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is more than possible; it is probable. View quote
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. View quote
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. View quote
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. View quote
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You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. View quote
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. View quote
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This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. View quote
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You know my methods. Apply them. View quote
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'Excellent' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he. View quote
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. View quote
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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. View quote
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. View quote
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. View quote
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. View quote
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. View quote
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. View quote
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. View quote
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. View quote
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