Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

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

Wisdom Long Little Things Important Axiom Infinitely Little Mine The Most Important Been Most Things

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 You Impossible Old Excluded However Improbable Maxim Mine Must Remains Whatever

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Talent Nothing Genius Mediocrity Higher Instantly Itself Knows Than

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistake Data Before Capital

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth You Matter Impossible Eliminate How Improbable Must Once Remains Whatever

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Me Problem Client Unit Factor Mere

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

Water Without Seen Drop Atlantic Could Having Heard Infer Niagara Other Possibility

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth You Impossible Must Eliminated However Improbable Remains Whatever

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Knowledge Doctor Go Wrong Criminals Does First Nerve He

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Facts Just Sense Some Least Observed Proportion Should Suppressed Treating Them

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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Imagination Horror Where

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth You Impossible Must Eliminated How However Improbable Often Remains Said Whatever

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Violence He Another Does Falls Pit Recoil Violent Which

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Women Like Own Women Are Naturally Secretive

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Never Habit Guess Shocking Logical Destructive Faculty

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Character Children Parents Real First Frequently Gained Insight Studying

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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Truth Nothing More Than Deceptive Fact Obvious

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing More Than Policeman

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Better Truth Is Doubt Than Any Indefinite

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing Person Up Another Case Clears Much Stating

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Art Man Who Important Derived Frequently Keenest Least Loves Own Pleasure Sake

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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Knowledge Ignorance His Remarkable

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

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Difficult Crime Most Track Which

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

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Always More Comrade Still Trusty Use

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

May Woman Know More Analytical Conclusion Impression Much Seen Too Too Much Valuable Than

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Old Ghosts Worst Our Loves

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Love Our Actions Command Our Love

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Great Which Empire London Cesspool Drained Idlers

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

Funny You Man Brain Attic Choose Consider Empty Furniture Little Originally Stock Like

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beautiful More Sin Present Alley Countryside Does Dreadful London Lowest Record Smiling Than

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You Milk Find Evidence Convincing Example Occasionally Quote Trout Very

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