Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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

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

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

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

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

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Author Bio

  • NameArthur Conan Doyle
  • DescriptionScottish physician and writer
  • AliasesSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
  • BornMay 22, 1859
  • DiedJuly 7, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPhysician; Writer; Poet; Cricketer; Novelist; Politician; Essayist; Playwright; Autobiographer; Librettist
  • WorksSherlock Holmes Canonical Works; The Lost World
  • AwardsVenerable Order Of Saint John; Deputy Lieutenant