"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. “The ideal reasoner,”… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound… — 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
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is… — 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
