Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. Arthur Conan Doyle Read Quote
