I think I should like to sit quietly for a few minutes and think it out. (Holmes; Thor Bridge) “I wish I knew how you reach your

Watch out for overconfidence My case is, as I have told you, almost complete; but we must not err on the side of overconfidence. Simple as the case seems now, there may be something deeper underlying

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles)

It is easy to be wise after the event, but very difficult to be wiser It is easy to be wise after the event. (Holmes; Thor Bridge) “How absurdly simple”, I cried. “Quite so...Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.” (Holmes; The Dancing Men)

I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial. (Dr. Watson; The Hound of the

It we could see the world the way others see it, we easier understand why they do what they do

Facts don’t lie but we may have interpreted or stated them wrong and therefore drawn the wrong conclusion

Distance gives perspective - Sometimes we need to remove ourselves from the problem and get a fresh perspective

Assume a crime has taken place and we are faced with the problem of how the criminal escaped from a locked room. Sometimes we need to think the other way around. The question is not how the criminal escaped but how he got into the room in the first place. Sometimes one problem solves the other. Test Our Theory- if it disagrees with the facts it is