A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about opinion, customers
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.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about intelligence, brain, rest, use, man
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about use
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about criminals, rules, things, face
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.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about water
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about opinion, ignorance, knowledge
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about impossible, truth
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.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature, parents, character, children, real estate
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about habits
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about things
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about fear, mistake
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about impossible, old, olderness, truth
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about human imperfections, mediocrity, genius, talent, nothing
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about existence, problems, mind, work
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about man, people, nothing
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about truth, impossible
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about idea, nature
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.Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about career, world, life