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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • #2
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #3
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #5
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

  • #6
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #7
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #8
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “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.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

  • #12
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

  • #13
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #14
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  • #15
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

  • #17
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #18
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The game is afoot.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #19
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

  • #20
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men

  • #21
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

  • #22
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

  • #23
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man

  • #24
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #25
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata

  • #26
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • #27
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

  • #28
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

  • #29
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  • #30
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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  • #31
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet



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