A bicycle, certainly, but not THE bicycle," said he. "I am familiar with forty-two different impressions left by tires. This, as you perceive, is a Dunlop, with a patch upon the outer cover. Heidegger's tires were Palmer's, leaving longitudinal stripes. Aveling, the mathematical master, was sure upon the point. Therefore, it is not Heidegger's track.

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 lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.