Conan Doyle Quotes

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

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

You see, but you do not observe.

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

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

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.

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