Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Time trieth truth.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

We need proof in our society.

You must see first before you can believe.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.