38 Sherlock Holmes quotes for those with a detective soul

The small details are always the most important.

We balance the odds and choose the most likely. It’s the scientific use of imagination

It is a serious mistake to formulate theories before knowing the facts. Unintentionally, we begin to change the facts to fit the theories, instead of formulating theories to fit the facts.

Any truth is better than doubt.

Watson, you have the great gift of silence and that makes you useless as a companion.

His advantage is my wound. To my advantage, anger.

The world is full of obvious things that no one ever notices.

There is nothing more elusive than an obvious fact.

I’m not sleeping. I’m just reviewing the details of the case in my mind.

I always assumed love was a dangerous handicap, thanks for the definitive proof.

Eliminate the impossible, and what remains, however improbable it may seem, must be the truth.

What can we know? What are we, after all? We aspire to be angels, but we have beast instincts.

Mediocrity does not see beyond itself. But talent instantly recognizes genius.

I am contemptible to the virtuous, ignorant of what is beautiful and do not understand happiness.

We all have a past, Watson. ghosts. And they are the shadows that define our sunny days.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Don’t make people into heroes. Heroes don’t exist, and if they did, I wouldn’t be one of them.

Friends are people you want to share things with.

You see, but you don’t observe.

My mind rebels against stagnation. Give me problems, give me jobs.

I’m not a psychopath. I am a self-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Good detectives know that every task, every interaction, even if it seems trivial, has the potential to hold back crowds.

Look at you, so lost. It’s nice not being me, it must be relaxing.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything the human mind could invent.

If you stay one step ahead of everyone, they start calling you brilliant.

God is a fiction dreamed up by misfits who place responsibilities on an imaginary friend.

I’m at rock bottom and I keep falling, and I can never get up to get out.

Of all the ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

I don’t remember ever getting tired of working, but idleness leaves me completely exhausted.

I won’t go into detail about how I do what I do, as chances are high that you wouldn’t understand.

What’s the point of being smart if you can’t prove it?

I’m not a deranged madman, but by all means keep me pressed.

I believe the human brain is like an attic, a storage place for facts. But since space is infinite, it should only be filled with things that a person needs to be a better person.