Sherlock Holmes

"Good heavens! Did you perceive the significance of that small fact?"

"A man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

"You have put yourself in the power of a desperate man."

"I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as far as we know them."

"Show me what you have left!"

"A man of action as well as of thought."

"The papers will make much of that."

"I see no reason to alter my opinion."

"The time for compromises has passed."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes"

"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay"

"You have seen all that is to be seen"

"The impossible once eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

"My dear Watson, you see, but you do not observe"

"I have trained myself to see what others overlook"

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"

"Come now, and we shall see what we can discover"

"Elementary, my dear fellow, elementary"

"Science and reason must prevail over superstition"

"Patience is the virtue of the detective"

"Justice delayed is justice denied"

"Fear is the greatest enemy of rational thought"

"One must observe the small details to solve great mysteries"

"The answer lies not in the heavens but in the facts before us"

"The truth emerges when all deceptions are stripped away"

"The unknown frightens us only because we do not understand it"

"Every case teaches us something new about human nature"

"A sharp mind is a man's greatest weapon"

"Knowledge is power in the hands of a just man"

"The greatest mysteries yield to reason and determination"