72 result(s) for Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes.
"The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
"To a great mind, nothing is little."
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know."
"There is no satisfaction in reasoning things out. There must be something mysterious."
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work."
"There is no satisfaction in reasoning about probabilities, if we may act in certainty."
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"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age."
"There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen."
"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."
"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observed."
"When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth."
"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
"All literature is my mental DNA."
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."
"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards."
"It's elementary, my dear Watson."
"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
"You see, but you do not observe."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"The little things are infinitely the most important."
"What one man can invent another can discover."
"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."
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."
"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."
"Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same."
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
"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."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty."
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
"The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
"The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be."
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."
"Do not meddle in the affairs of detectives, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
"It is a great thing to be able to say that you have lived well, whether you lived long or short."
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."
"Good-bye, and be brave, for if you fail to discover everything that you should know, you will not be so brave hereafter."
"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be."
"I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
"The world is full of folly and folly is the recourse of the weak."
"To the one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To the one without faith, no explanation is possible."
"The most difficult crime to solve is the one which is not committed."
"A great law of culture is, that all great things must be done by the few, and not by the many."
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say."
"The game is afoot!"
"In the presence of nature, a wild, unknown world, the mind loses its faculties and then feels as if it is at the mercy of mystery."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"A man’s mind is like a mine; it is the depth and how deeply it is worked that determines its worth."
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."
"It is only by that which is false that we can arrive at that which is true."
"Every mystery ever solved has turned out to be a little bit different from the things we thought we knew."
"A detective is not a technology, but a personality."
"The science of deduction is comprised of three things: observation, deduction, and the exercise of imagination."
"If you want to find a hero, look for someone who has faced down a bully."
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"
"The greatest problem of human life is that it generates more data than it can handle."
"To be sensible is to be unhappy."
"The art of a fisherman is paramount to success."
"Doubt is the father of invention."
"Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to let it solve itself."
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