Arthur Conan Doyle quotes Born: 05/22/1859 Died: 07/07/1930 Country: united_kingdom

• Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [matter/truth]
• There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [skill/genius/right/more]
• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [chance]
• Where there is no imagination there is no horror. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [imagination/horror]
• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [/nature/nature]
• I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [remember/feeling/idleness]
• In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [experience/women/face/nature]
• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [life/stranger/mind/strange]
• I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [habit]
• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [capital/mistake]
• 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]
• 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)
• A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 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)
• As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 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)
• 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)
• I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 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)
• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 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)
• Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. (Arthur Conan Doyle)

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