Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a renowned Scottish author, physician, and creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. With a passion for writing and storytelling, Doyle's iconic character and gripping mysteries made him one of the most celebrated authors in history. His adherence to scientific methods and logical reasoning in Holmes' investigations revolutionized the genre and captured the imagination of readers globally. Apart from the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote numerous other novels, short stories, and non-fiction works, showcasing his versatility as a writer. With his exceptional literary contributions, Conan Doyle left an indelible mark on detective fiction and literature as a whole. Explore the thrilling world of Sherlock Holmes and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Arthur Conan Doyle's storytelling.

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

To a great mind, nothing is little.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

I carry my own church about under my own hat. Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- 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