Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859 - 1930) Quotes
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.
The little things are infinitely the most important.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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.
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
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.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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.