Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Mind Quotes

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

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

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

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