Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Love

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Success

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Education

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom