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Sherlock Holmes - From the Communication category:
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain. Results without causes are much more impressive. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Criticism category:
Don't talk, Anderson. You lower the IQ of the entire street every time you open your mouth. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Danger category:
I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Deception category:
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Difficulty category:
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Discovery category:
What one man can invent another can discover. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Doubt category:
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Education category:
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Genius category:
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Habit category:
I never guess. It is a shocking habit- destructive to the logical faculty. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Health category:
There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Imagination category:
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Importance category:
The little things are infinitely the most important. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Intellect category:
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Knowledge category:
It is my business to know what other people don't know. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Life category:
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Methodology category:
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Music category:
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. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Nature category:
When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Pets category:
Dogs don't make mistakes. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Poetry category:
Cut out the poetry, Watson. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Possibilities category:
One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Problems category:
In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Questions category:
It's the question that beats in my head like a hammer. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Rules category:
An exception disproves the rule. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Seeing category:
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Silence category:
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Theory category:
t is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Truth category:
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Wisdom category:
I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - From the Work category:
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. (Sherlock Holmes)
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