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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Believe, Knowledge, Thinking

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Justice, Clean, Young
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.72, eKitap Projesi

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Real, Lying, Greatness
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.99, Broadview Press

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Inspirational, Men, Justice
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.431, Race Point Pub

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)

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Salad, Lettuce, Dressings
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories”, p.170, Canongate Books

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sweet, Morning, Ambition
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Speak

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

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Brain, Appendix, Mere
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1057, Race Point Pub

Dogs don't make mistakes.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Inspirational, Life, Dog
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.392

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

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Clever, Turns, Adaptable

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Fate, Poison, Belts
"The lost world; The poison belt: being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor Challenger".

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes, Late
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.146

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

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Eye, Light, Speak
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1095, GENERAL PRESS

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

Arthur Conan Doyle
Community, Criminals, Fortunate
"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908)

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mind, Fool, Troublesome
"The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels".

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Consistency, Deception, Looks
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1109, Race Point Publishing

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

Arthur Conan Doyle
Fifty, Reason
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.84, BoD - Books on Demand

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Matter, Impossible, Unlikely

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Halloween, Imagination, Scary
Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Self, Departure, Modesty
"The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle (p. 638), 2007.

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