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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"You know my methods, Watson. They are neither difficult nor secret."Sherlock Holmes
"Conscience is a dangerous thing."Justice Wargrave
"To oppose something is to maintain it."Shevek
"What does it mean to be smart if you can't connect with another human being?"Charlie Gordon
"Ignorance was bliss, but knowledge is a burden."Charlie Gordon
"I was a better man when I was simple."Charlie Gordon
"Ignorance would have been safer."Charlie Gordon
"A person is smart. People are dumb."Hannibal Lecter
"Believe nothing until it's officially denied."Jack Crawford
"I'm not sure what you mean by 'it'."Hannibal Lecter
"The lamb will stop screaming."Hannibal Lecter
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use."Sherlock Holmes
"You see, but you do not observe."Sherlock Holmes
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have data."Sherlock Holmes
"One should always look at these things from the point of view of the criminal."Sherlock Holmes
"I have my methods."Sherlock Holmes
"Depend upon it, the devil is in the details."Sherlock Holmes
"The case has been an interesting one, though elementary in its analysis."Sherlock Holmes
"Some secrets are best left buried."Sherlock Holmes
"Understanding others is a burden I didn't ask for."Charlie Gordon
"Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth."Shevek
"Responsibility is what makes us human."Takver
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."Sherlock Holmes
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."Sherlock Holmes
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."Sherlock Holmes
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."Sherlock Holmes
"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital."Sherlock Holmes
"Crime is common. Logic is rare."Sherlock Holmes
"The smallest point may be the most essential."Sherlock Holmes
"It was a tangled skein, but as I gazed at it the separate threads began to come apart in my mind."Sherlock Holmes
