Study In Scarlet Quotes

• 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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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny Inspirational, Knowledge, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Believe, People, Done

  "Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear".

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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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Links, Life Is, Chains

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.15, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Mind, Matter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.29, Penguin

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• Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Ideas, Race

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ignorance, Literature, Study

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Moon, Differences, Sun

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Philosophy, Book, Ignorance

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1316, GENERAL PRESS

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• London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  London, Empires, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Knowledge, Useless

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Pain, Doe, Detective Work

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wall, Mistake, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Water, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Air, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Natural Talent, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Art, Use

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, ebookspub

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• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Names, Scotland

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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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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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nature, Science, Ideas

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Exactness, Remarkable, Reader

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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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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• But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mother, Treasure, Pearls

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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