These are some of the quotes that are different from the run-of-mill variety that we come across everyday. They are quotes on LOGIC/DATA ANALYSIS/KNOWLEDGE etc, quite relevant. Read it from many Sherlock Homes stories that i have read over a period of time. Excellent work by Sir Doyle.
- His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
- You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.
- What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
- I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.
- I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- 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.
- Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
- "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
- Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
- We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
