Good evening everyone! Here is a
very interesting opinion of Sherlock Holmes (from A Study in Scarlet). What do
you think about it? Please paste your comments below!!!
"You
see," he explained, "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 lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his
hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he
takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help
him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the
most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic
walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it 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."
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