It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Valley of Fear
Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Sign of Four
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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 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.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Naval Treaty
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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