| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17674 |
| QUOTATION: | A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in “The Five Orange Pips,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892).
Holmes expressed a similar idea in “A Study in Scarlet.” See also Doyle’s remark under “Mind, the.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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