Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

Wisdom, Love, Actions

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

Wisdom, Important, Long

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

Truth, Impossible, Matter

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

Work, Mind, Give

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing, Fact, Obvious

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

Character, Children, Parents

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Doubt, Indefinite

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

Knowledge, Time, Forget

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

Life, Strange, Far

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

Nothing, Talent, Genius

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

Nature, Ideas, Broad

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Old, Worst, Loves

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, Brain, Choose

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

Truth, Impossible, Whatever

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, Impossible, Old

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

Women, Naturally, Secretive

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, Seen, Heard

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Knowledge, Ignorance, Remarkable

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

Before, Mistake, Data

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, Important, Pleasure

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

Knowledge, Wrong, Doctor

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

Brain, Put, Away

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

Said, Difficult, Face

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, Impossible, Said

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

Woman, May, Seen

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: May 22, 1859

Died: July 7, 1930

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