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. -Arthur Conan Doyle Intelligence
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 Truth
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 Funny
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 Truth
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. -Arthur Conan Doyle Work
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 Knowledge
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. -Arthur Conan Doyle Truth
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 Imagination
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -Arthur Conan Doyle Wisdom
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle Truth
