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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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The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Strong, Men, Weak Man

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Racing, Brain, Pieces

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.789, Wordsworth Editions

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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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One must wait till it comes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Waiting

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Light, People, Genius

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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Anything is better than stagnation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Stagnation

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4255, Delphi Classics

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

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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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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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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Clever, Men, Brain

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.195

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

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Thinking, Two, Brain

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.93, eKitap Projesi

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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Book, Scent, Ancient

Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.154, Wordsworth Editions

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dark, Wish, Beats

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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mind, Littles, Great Minds

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)”, p.1434, BookRix

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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Love, Risk, Age

Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hands, Life Is

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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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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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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tired, Feelings, Constitution

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Trout, Example, Milk

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.305, W. W. Norton & Company

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Died: July 7, 1930
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