Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

“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, A Study in Scarlet

topic:belief appearance

“But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

topic:education

“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

topic:future past

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:writing eyes

“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

topic:work

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:humanity music

“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

topic:action

“To a great mind, nothing is little”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:mind

“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:mind

“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.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

topic:mind

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