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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about idea, nature

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about career, world, life

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about common sense, sense

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about crime, criminals

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about philosophy, nothing

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about opinion, nothing

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about politics, nothing

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about pleasure, art, magic, man

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

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about violence, truth

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about medicine, criminals, bad, knowledge

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about truth, impossible, contentment

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about imagination

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about woman

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.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature, contentment

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about essential, justice, peace

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about equality, peace

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about action, self-control

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, danger, nation, peace, war, people

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, essential, faith, world