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Appearance vs. reality1 quote
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Australia1 quote
We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1911Beauty of nature1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. 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 really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color 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. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893British Empire1 quote
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Cocaine1 quote
It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890Confoundment1 quote
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Depression1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Details1 quote
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Down days1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Drugs1 quote
It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890Evidence1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Facts1 quote
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. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Flowers1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. 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 really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color 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. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893Heliocentrism1 quote
What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Judgment1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Jumping to conclusions1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Logic1 quote
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890London1 quote
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Nature of God1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. 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 really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color 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. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893Observation1 quote
You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Process of elimination1 quote
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890Reputation1 quote
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Revenge1 quote
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. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Rural vs. urban1 quote
The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892Sadness1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Seeing1 quote
You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Solving problems1 quote
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891The little things1 quote
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Things that don't matter1 quote
What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Truth1 quote
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890