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Human Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
- 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…
- There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
- One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
- 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.
- Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before…
- It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
- What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery…
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