41 Quotations by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

- 2. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an ...

- 3. All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

- 4. And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little ...

- 5. Chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

- 6. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that yo ...

- 7. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without havi ...

- 8. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however ...

- 9. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or th ...

- 10. I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with ...

- 11. I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.

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

- 13. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

- 14. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

- 15. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

- 16. It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor ...

- 17. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c ...

- 18. Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

- 19. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

- 20. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

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