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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

British author

Lived from: 1859 - 1930

Category: Scientists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 may 1859 Died: 7 july 1930

  • 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.
  • Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
  • The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
  • It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
  • There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
  • 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.
  • It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
  • 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.
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  • li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
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  • A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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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.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117
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  • 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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  • All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
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  • Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
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  • Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
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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.
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  • Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
    The Sign of the Four (1890) Ch. 1
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  • 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.
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  • He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
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  • How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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  • I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1057
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  • I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
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  • I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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  • 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.
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  • I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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  • I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.
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  • It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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.
    A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
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What are the most famous quotes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

The two most famous quotes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are:

  • "li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
  • "A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem."

When did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle live?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 and died in the year 1930.