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• It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Courage, Stupid, Anticipation

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893).

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• It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Believe, Knowledge, Thinking

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• It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Men, Justice

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.431, Race Point Pub

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• I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Real, Character

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: Children's Classics”, p.110, Everyman's Library

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• Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Literature, Ghost

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.73

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• Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Atheism, Charity

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1986). “Letters to the press: the unknown Conan Doyle”, Harvill Secker

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• You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Salad, Lettuce, Dressings

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories”, p.170, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, May, Too Much

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (1891). Holmes enigmatically distrusts women yet values their judgment.

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• I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Believe, Heart, Bricks And Mortar

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics

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• There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Fool, Troublesome

  "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels".

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• There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Justice, Clean, Young

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.72, eKitap Projesi

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• My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Names, People

  "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892)

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• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Morning, Ambition

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Speak

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• I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Research, Sociopath, Psychopath

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• When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Matter, Impossible, Unlikely

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  Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Imagination, Scary

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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• The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Track, Literature, Crime

  Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

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• My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Self, Departure, Modesty

  "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle (p. 638), 2007.

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• …but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes, Late

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.146

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• I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brain, Appendix, Mere

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1057, Race Point Pub

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• We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Our Actions, Command

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: free audiobook included: Illustrated and Unabridged”, p.166, Wizio Publishing

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• The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Science, Able

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Science

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 3

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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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Views, Clue, Point Of View

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1110, Race Point Publishing

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