An investigator needs facts, and not legends or rumours.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Showing posts with label Arthur Conan Doyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Conan Doyle. Show all posts
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Hoping for success
One cannot always have the success for which one hopes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Obvious things
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Quote about obvious things |
Quote about justice
The same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Quote about justice |
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
While the individual man is …
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
The Sign of the four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Darwin quote about music
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.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Darwin quote about music |
Monday, February 24, 2014
Theorizing quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Theorizing quote |
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Quote about human brain
A man`s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful, indeed, as to what he takes into his brain-attic.He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. 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.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
burdening mind with small matters
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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quote about desultory readers
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| quote about desultory readers |
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Logician quote
To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate oneself is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one`s own powers.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Logician quote |
Friday, February 14, 2014
Art in the blood quote
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Art in the blood quote |
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Truth quote
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Quote about truth |
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
power of public opinion
The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| power of public opinion |
quote about love of woman
There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| quote about love of woman |
Sorrow quote
One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Sorrow quote |
Commanding our emotions
We can`t command our love, but we can our actions.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Commanding our emotions |
Jealousy quote
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Jealousy quote |
Quote about human brain
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get if he wants it.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Quote about human brain |
Strangeness of life quote
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| Strangeness of life quote |
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