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

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

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Arthur Conan Doyle

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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