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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Emotional, Quality, Clear
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.26, Arthur Conan Doyle

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 it if he wants it.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Business, Men, Brain
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips"

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Progress, Virtue, Interest
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4567, Delphi Classics

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

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mind, Noble, Ruins
'His Last Bow' (1917) 'The Dying Detective'.

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

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mistake, Mystery, Strangeness
1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Giving, Mind, Exaltation
Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Seems, Commonplace

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Flower, Smell, Rose
"The Naval Treaty" (1893)

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Arthur Conan Doyle
People, Soul, Violence
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.456, BoD - Books on Demand

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Stars, Firefly, Spirit
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4393, Delphi Classics

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)

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Peace, Truth, Fall
Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.551, Jazzybee Verlag

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Revenge, Thinking, Law
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes #6”, p.147, Zillmann Publishing

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagination, Effort, Literature
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Running, Blank Mind, Steps
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1893). In "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893) Holmes tells Doctor Watson, "All things should be seen exactly as they are."

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Science, Men, Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle (2017). “ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…”, p.5995, e-artnow

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Silly, Character, Strange
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II”, p.455, Bantam Classics

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Needs, World, Ghost
Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.215, Andrews UK Limited

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Religious, Pain, Support
Attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 2009.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Earth, Sides, Danger
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1878, Delphi Classics

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Spiritual, Trying, Helping
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “Through the Magic Door: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Circles, Done, Wheels
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.1163, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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