Author of quotes: Arthur Conan Doyle. Page 3

He's not particularly popular in our environment, although I always thought that the arrogance in which he was accused was merely an attempt to cover up extreme shyness.

In the character of my friend Holmes, I was often struck by a strange feature: although in his mental work he was most precise and the use of the people, and his clothes are always distinguished not only by their neatness, but even elegance, in all other respects it was the most chaotic creature in the world, and his habits could bring to mind any person living with him under one roof.
Not that I was blameless in this regard. <...> Still, my carelessness has known boundaries, and when I see that man keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, tobacco in the toe of the Persian shoes, and the letters waiting for an answer, pinning a pocket knife to a wooden Board over the fireplace, I'm really starting to feel like I was the pattern of all the virtues.

Worst of all the ghosts - the ghosts of our past affections.

Because people understandably prefer to be treated by someone who himself healthy, and have little trust of the medical knowledge the man who can't even heal himself.

Intelligent defender will not leave evidence of a stone.

To create a version without having the facts, is a big mistake.

Disgusting condition to feel that you're surrounded on all sides by some unknown, invisible people who weave around you some network.

Not too hard to build a series of insights in which each successive simplest way follows from the previous one. If you then remove all secondary links and inform the listener only the first link and the last, they will produce stunning, albeit a false impression.

Seeing the wavering edge of the web, instantly imagine a predatory spider in its center.

The first impression always is - extremely gentle people, and I bump into something very solid, strong. And see that this is the limit, then it was impossible to enter. It is impossible not to take into account this fact, it is necessary to be accustomed.

The most insignificant detail can be the most significant.

Still, it's a mistake to build a deduction before the sufficient data. Unbeknownst to himself, they begin to adjust to his scheme.

- I am surprised that my simple invention could fool an experienced hunter, ' continued Holmes. For you it should not be a novelty. Don't you had to tie them under the tree and the goat, hiding in the branches with the shotgun, wait until tiger comes to the bait? This empty house is my tree and you are my tiger. I think that sometimes you happen to have in reserve other shooters in case, if suddenly appeared several tigers, or in the unlikely event, if you missed. These gentlemen, he showed us, - spare my hands. My comparison is right, isn't it?

We must always try to put yourself in someone else's place and imagine how you would have done yourself.