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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

About Author: British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930)

Quotes:

  • "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

  • This is quite a three-pipe problem.

  • 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.

  • You see, but you do not observe.

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

  • The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

  • How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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

  • The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

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

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

  • There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

  • It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  • When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  • The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

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

  • The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

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

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