There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.More Arthur Conan Doyle [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:23]

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.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:31]

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:35]

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:40]

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:51]

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:00]

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:06]

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.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:16]

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:21]

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:45]

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:51]

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.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:55]

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:59]

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:04]

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:29]

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:37]

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:43]

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.More Arthur Conan Doyle [09/22/2011 11:09:47]