Quotes 181 till 200 of 479.
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Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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.
Source: A Scandal in Bohemia (1891) -
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
Source: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) -
It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) -
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Source: Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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