All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. Holmes
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to… All
- The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. Finished
- We can't command our love, but we can our actions. Action
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Axiom
- 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… Abhor
- There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Deception
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Education
- I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Character
- Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. All
- Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Any
- 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. Aggravation
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. Always Far
- It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Excluded
- Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Inspirational
- Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Broad
- Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Halloween
- 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… Addition
- 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… Atlantic
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Capital
- When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Criminals
- His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Ignorance
- 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. Analytical
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Digs
- London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. All