Quotes by Doyle Arthur Conan
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
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.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
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