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
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
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, world