Holmes Quotes - Page 2

• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Literature, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Artist, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Believe, People, Done

  "Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear".

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• Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, Giving, People

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1557, GENERAL PRESS

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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• …but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Late

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.146

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• Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Common, Logic, Crime

  1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

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• Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Book, Heart

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.449, Wordsworth Editions

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• To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Littles, Great Minds

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)”, p.1434, BookRix

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• Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Boys, Details, Never Trust

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Learning, Sight

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Nature, Waiting

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• Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Remains, Factors, Deductions

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Doubt

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Doctors, Lost

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.166, Race Point Pub

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Men, Brain

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips"

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• Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

  Laurie R. King

  Air, Giving, Missing

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• Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  Kinky Friedman

  Important, Drs, Homosexual

  "Kinky Friedman calls Chris Christie and Jerry Jones gay on ESPN, host apologizes for comments" by Joshua Fechter, www.sfgate.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• What one man can invent, another can discover.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, One Man

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903).

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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