Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
It 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.
The game is afoot!
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
The only way to solve a puzzle is to strip it of all its mystery.
You see, but you do not observe.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work.
The work is its own reward.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Watson, you really are quite absurdly susceptible to the influence of others.
The most dangerous criminal is the one who is entirely unperceived.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
What one man can invent, another can discover.
Sherlock Holmes Quotes – Unraveling the Mind of the Master Detective part 2
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit – destructive to the logical faculty.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
I have been meditating upon the very singular contents of your statement, and I have come to the conclusion that you are not only a very ingenious man, but that you have also an extraordinary gift of making others take a share in your own beliefs.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
It is a locked-room mystery where the room is locked from the inside.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
There’s nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
The world is wide enough for us both.
When I say that I have solved it, I mean that I have discovered who committed the crime.
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
The police are amateurs. They cannot prevent crime. Only I can prevent crimes.
In crime investigation, the trifles are the most important.
The science of deduction is Sherlock Holmes himself.
Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
Come at once if convenient, if inconvenient come all the same.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
What do you say, Watson? Shall we solve this mystery together?
By a man’s finger nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs – by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed.
Women are never to be entirely trusted – not the best of them.
A woman’s emotions are utterly unpredictable.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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