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, ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes by Power Quotations
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