"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is 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 which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot
of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as
to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these
he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls
and can distend to any extent. 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."
--Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might
find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact."
--Sherlock Holmes, STUD
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."
--Sherlock Holmes, STUD
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
--S.H.,
SPEC
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
--S.H., YELL
"Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
--S.H., REDC
"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."
--S.H., 3GAB
"There is danger there -- a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly
would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival
of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"
--S.H., CREE
More to come in the future.
