"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious…" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
— Giordano Bruno
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The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And…
— Herman Cain
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly…
— Elias Canetti
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part,…
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