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 Copy Share Image
“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it’s… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“..There is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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 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