Sherlock holmes Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle Download Open image ““Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.”” — Arthur Conan Doyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sherlock holmes
“Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.” — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
“Well, Watson.' 'Yes, Holmes? 'I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!” — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger who isn’t… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Do you remember," he said, "one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.” — Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has not got… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had anyone? And when I say "had", I'm being indelicate.” — Irene Adler Copy Share Image
“How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by… — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
“John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.” — Guy Adams Copy Share Image
