Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

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.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
- Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
- Arthur Conan Doyle