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| You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |
| "Strong reasons makes strong actions." | William Shakespeare | King John | |
| "NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder. | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. | Gilbert Parker | The Battle Of The Strong | |
| " . . . I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason--but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner." | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend | |
| "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | |
| How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! | Jane Austen | Persuasion | |
| "But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge." | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | |
| "But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of The Four | |
| "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | |
| "How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect." | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| "My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Greek Interpreter | |
| "Crime is common. Logic is rare." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Copper Beeches | |
| "No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit,--destructive to the logical faculty." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of The Four | |
| "From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | |
| "I'll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say." | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | |
