50 Inspirational Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes You Should Not Miss!

Both a writer and a doctor, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL lived in Britain. For his 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet, he introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson; he went on to write 56 short stories and four novels featuring the duo. When it comes to crime fiction, the Sherlock Holmes novels are regarded as landmarks. Here are some successful life quotations by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Top Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

• “A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

• “Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle quotes bicycle

• “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” ~ 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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• ”The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “You see, but you do not observe.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It’s every man’s business to see justice done.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle quotes about love

• “When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “I carry my own church about under my own hat,” said I. “Bricks and mortar won’t make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “My dear Watson,” said [Sherlock Holmes], “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “To a great mind, nothing is little,’ remarked Holmes, sententiously.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “One must wait till it comes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

  “It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “How sweet the morning air is! …How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.” ~ 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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “It is more than possible; it is probable.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle”Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• “We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle