Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Balance Quotes

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

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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

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It is more than possible; it is probable.

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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

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The fair sex is your department.

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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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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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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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