Arthur Conan Doyle
“Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.”
“Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
“The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
“You know my methods, Watson.”
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
“The game is afoot.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”