Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

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

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.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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

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.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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

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

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

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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