Reason Quotes

"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." ~ A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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. ~ The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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. ~ Silas Marner by George Eliot "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." ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde "As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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 friends ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan--by faith, not by reason. ~ 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne