“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.”
― Sherlock Holmes
― Sherlock Holmes
“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
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“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
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“My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.”
― The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #9 )
― The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #9 )
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