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| . ''Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.'' from “A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality”, Jonathan Swift, 1721 . ''I have heard it remarked, that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion that they have not reasoned themselves into.'' U.S. Congressman Fisher Ames, 1786 |
. ''Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.'' . “A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality”, Jonathan Swift, 1721 . ''I have heard it remarked, that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion that they have not reasoned themselves into.'' . U.S. Congressman Fisher Ames, 1786 |
= Tomorrow's Table h=
Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
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- Amazon review quote by Steven D. Savage
- As Mark Twain said, "you can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into in the first place."
sadly, a misattribution
Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.
- “A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality”, Jonathan Swift, 1721
I have heard it remarked, that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion that they have not reasoned themselves into.
- U.S. Congressman Fisher Ames, 1786