“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

[www.gutenberg.org/files/8389/8389-h/8389-h.htm#liberty] Ingersoll's Lecture on Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

To Senator Ted Kennedy
Quoted in The Namibian newspaper, 27 Apr 2011 http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=28&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=80921&no_cache=1

If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Variant: Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask 'What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask what do you love?
Source: The Bronze Horseman (2001)