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There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the...
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the...
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the...
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon...
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have...
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard...
You will, I am sure, agree with me that. . . if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first...
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of...
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are...
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most...
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our...
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
Source: A Case of...
'Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.
Source: Watson talking to Sherlock...
You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
Source: The...
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
Source: The Red-Headed League.
-- Arthur Conan...
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Source:...
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things...
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...
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