Tomorrow's Table
Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak Beaverton 664 Ron
- 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