“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891).
