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Sunday, March 7, 2010

My Favorite Sherlcok Holmes Lines and Quotes

Sherlock Holmes [Blu-ray]"Elementary."

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

Everything in this world is relative

What one man can invent another can discover.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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

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

It is my business to know what other people don't know.

There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.