Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

The press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The highest and most complex achievement of the human intellect is the power of generalization.

My dear Watson, you were in my mind, just as I was in yours.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow.

It is an error to argue in front of your data. You can insensibly twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

There are some who are good, and some who are evil. And the world is full of both.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

It is a great thing to have a friend whose mind works like your own.

One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of successful planning.

Our minds are like a blank sheet of paper, to be filled in with facts.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.

The public is an old baby. It likes to be told a story.

The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is only the commonplace that truly puzzles.

The easiest way to make a man a fool is to give him an opinion and then contradict it.