There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
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