Quotes About Knowledge

I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.

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 not what we know, but what we can prove.

A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place

He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time.

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

His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.

what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

Nulla è piccolo per una grande mente, sentenziò Holmes.

The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.

You may remember the old Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world." a

Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.

there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz—here we are, Egria. It

The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." "But the Solar System!" I protested.

It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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