Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes


Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Crime 230
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doctors 163
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Control 128
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Business 110
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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Logic 104
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Things 95
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Violence 94
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Truth 83
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Assumptions 79
I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Assumptions 77
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reading 75
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Crime 72
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Laziness 65
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Talent 63
All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Learning 58
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Facts 51
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Work 49
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Appearance 47
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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Libraries 43
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Facts 38
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mistakes 35
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Potential 34
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Science 33

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