Quotes By Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.