Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Arthur Conan Doyle