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Reason Quotes, Quotes About Reason


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"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 GaskellCranford
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. . . the well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her.George MeredithDiana of the Crossways
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan--by faith, not by reason.Jules Verne20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
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"Strong reasons makes strong actions."William ShakespeareKing John
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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 ParkerThe Battle Of The Strong
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Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.Charles DickensOur Mutual Friend
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" . . . 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 DickensOur Mutual Friend
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"I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Lost World
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!Jane AustenPersuasion
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"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!"Thomas HardyJude the Obscure
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"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 DoyleThe Sign of The Four
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"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 DoyleA Study in Scarlet
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Stark Munro Letters
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A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . .George EliotSilas Marner
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"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 WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray
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"As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor."Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles
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I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friendsCharles DickensGreat Expectations
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.Theodore DreiserSister Carrie
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