“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.”Tagged: Alone, Lonely, Friends
“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.”Tagged: Knowledge, explanation, inelligence
“You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Tagged: Universe, Stars, Solar System
“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…”Tagged: Brains, Knowledge, Facts, Intelligence
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”Tagged: Nature, Ideas, open-minded
“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”Tagged: Quiet, Depression, Alone
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries…”Tagged: Music, Words, Songs
“I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.”Tagged: Lows, Highs, surviving
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”Tagged: humans, predictable, Mathematics
“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”Tagged: Love, emotions, Reason
“I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”Tagged: Tired, Work, Bored
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”Tagged: impossible, Possible, Truth
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”Tagged: Action, Adventure, Energy
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”Tagged: Stimulating, Problems