Quotes about Logic
Mr. Sherlock Holmes...was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson, said he. A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid. So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime is common. Logic is rare.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton