Sherlock Holmes Quotes

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The game is afoot.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I am not a psychopath, I’m a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

When you have a eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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

What one man can invent, another can discover.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

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.

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

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

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

Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

Watson, you have the gift of silence, Watson.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.

A gentleman should know all there is to know about evertting.

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism.”

Excellent! Admirable! But what use will you make of it?

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow.”

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for those who snatched a delusion from a woman.

One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

Personally, I find it easiest to work when the unforeseen intervenes.