Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

  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

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

   

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• 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

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

  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

• 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

• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• 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

• 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

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  Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

   

  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

• 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

• 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

• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (83)

Birth:	22nd May, 1859
Death:	7th July, 1930
Nationality:	British, Scottish
Profession:	Novelist, Physician, Poet, Writer

About

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a British physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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