“No data yet," he answered. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
