Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Stories Quotes, Causes Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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Praise and disgrace cause fear.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

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We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.

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Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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