Best Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Top 10)
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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