Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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• Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Healthy, Skepticism, Observation

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.9809, Delphi Classics

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• You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, May, Hounds

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• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Obvious Things, World

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

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• 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

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Matter, Impossible

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• 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

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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• You see, but you do not observe.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Curiosity, Statistics, Detectives

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• 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

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Skills, Genius, Splendid

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• The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  War, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company”, p.81, Booklassic

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• Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lessons, Lasts, Ends

  His Last Bow 'The Adventure of the Red Circle'

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Doubt

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fifty, Reason

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.84, BoD - Books on Demand

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• I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Research, Sociopath, Psychopath

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• It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Courage, Stupid, Anticipation

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893).

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Wisdom, Past

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity"

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• The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Lying, Greatness

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.99, Broadview Press

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• When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Matter, Impossible, Unlikely

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• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Morning, Ambition

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• 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

  Time, Knowledge, Useless

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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