A Quote by Jonathan Swift

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

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Beliefs Cannot Out Them Were Your

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Richard Dawkins

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

Fisher Ames

A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. Instead, disagreements are settled by other means which, in extreme cases, inevitably become violent. Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Richard Dawkins

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

Stefan Molyneux

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Fisher Ames

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

Selma Lagerlöf

For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.

Michael Frayn

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James Anthony Froude

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

Frederick Lenz

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Guru Nanak

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.