“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 l…”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The next time you can’t remember something, resist the urge to Google the answer. Challenge your brain to recall that useless tidbit instead.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“When we don't find the logical answer, we settle for a stupid one. Ritual is what happens when we run out of rational.”— David Hoselton, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“No matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“He’s smart. Intelligent men know what they are doing, because they apply everything they learned in life to any given situation. They know how to do things the right way, because it is the smart way. Their scientific attitudes are usually reflected in their bedroom prowess as well.”— Danielle Anne, lovepanky.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“WHAT. Sherlock Holmes brother also created the show Sherlock?! Oh man he really is smart.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“In theory, having sex every single day would make you fertile, live longer, never get sick, and have the brain of noted genius Beyoncé. Basically, sex makes you a superhero.”— Lane Moore, cosmopolitan.com
“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com