Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Arthur Conan Doyle quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased writer born on May 22, 1859). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 41 we have for him.
“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.”
“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
“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.”
“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
“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.”
“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.”
“Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.”
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