Arthur Conan Doyle – 18 Quotes

18 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

– 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.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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

– Arthur Conan Doyle

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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

– Arthur Conan Doyle

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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

– Arthur Conan Doyle

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

– Arthur Conan Doyle