A Study In Scarlet Quotes

“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."

"I confess," said I, "that I do not quite follow you."

"I hardly expected that you would. Let me see if I can make it clearer. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“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. Never mind,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle