Quotes About Insight

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

What one man can invent another can discover, said Holmes.

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabía usted dónde mirar y por eso se perdió todo lo importante.

nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person

I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

All knowledge comes useful to the detective," remarked Holmes.

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Some times you have to look hard at something to see its value

He visto demasiado como para no saber que la intuición de una mujer puede resultar más útil que las conclusiones de un razonador analítico.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Esta vez, Watson, califíqueme en su relato como de burro completo.

I think I have known how to frame the letter," said Sherlock Holmes.

faces. Perhaps I had best

That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. It was evidently a term of reproach.

Todos los problemas le parecen infantiles después de que se los hayan explicado.

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

But a girl always knows.

racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don

Nuestras ideas deben ser tan amplias como la naturaleza si aspiran a interpretarla.

El conocimiento siempre da más conocimiento, del mismo modo que el dinero da más interés.

The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain.

Die Welt ist voller offensichtlicher Dinge, die niemand jemals beobachtet.

No veo nada- respondí [...] -Muy al contrario, Watson, lo ve usted todo. Sin embargo, no razona a partit de lo que ve