Wisdom Quotes
The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.
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"Data, data, data! I can't make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"You know my methods, Watson."Sherlock Holmes
"Elementary, my dear Watson."Sherlock Holmes
"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues."Sherlock Holmes
"To a great mind, nothing is little."Sherlock Holmes
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself."Sherlock Holmes
"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."Sherlock Holmes
"You will find it a very pretty little problem."Sherlock Holmes
"The case is as simple as that."Sherlock Holmes
"Really, Watson, I am ashamed of you."Sherlock Holmes
"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon the other."Sherlock Holmes
"Woman's intuition is a wonderful thing."Sherlock Holmes
"The peculiar is not always the great."Sherlock Holmes
"Maybe I'm not as intelligent as I think I am."Charlie Gordon
"The intelligence is a burden I never asked for."Charlie Gordon
"I used to be content with my life, but that was ignorance."Charlie Gordon
"I plead with you to use these reports wisely."Charlie Gordon
"The sleeper has awakened, but to what purpose?"Paul Atreides
"The desert teaches humility to all who enter it."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it always had been, and always will be."Takver
"All you really need to know is what the message on the bowl says"Marvin the Paranoid Android
"The best conversations happen when no one is talking"Ford Prefect
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."Sherlock Holmes
"I cannot but think that you are justified in your caution."Sherlock Holmes
"One should always look for a possible alternative."Sherlock Holmes
"I have usually found that there is method in the madness."Sherlock Holmes
"The greatest danger lies in complacency."Sherlock Holmes
"To assume is to make a fool of oneself."Sherlock Holmes
"The greatest mysteries have the simplest solutions."Sherlock Holmes
"The hound was but a symbol of greater evil."Sherlock Holmes
