Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

" When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. " # Truth # Faith # Possibilities

" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. " # Things and Little Things

" Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. " # Talent # Genius # Mediocrity

" It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. " # Books - Reading # Life and Living # Love

" Where there is no imagination there is no horror. " # Horror # Freedom # Power

" There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. " # Facts # Deception # Marriage

" Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. " # Education # Law and Lawyers # Philosophers and Philosophy

" 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. " # Mind # Books - Reading # Choice

" I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. " # Things and Little Things # Heart # Army and Navy

" When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. " # Doctors # Crime and Criminals # Knowledge