Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Running Quotes, Blank Mind Quotes

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.

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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

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

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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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

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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

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We have much to hope from the flowers.

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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

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The fair sex is your department.

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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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.

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