Best Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Top 10)

  1. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  2. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
  3. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
  4. You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
  5. 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.
  6. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
  7. Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
  8. His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
  9. London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
  10. 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.

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