A Quote by Sydney Smith

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

Sydney Smith

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Sydney Smith
English - Priest
June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

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

Jonathan Swift

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

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

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

Fisher Ames

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Guru Nanak

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

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

Stefan Molyneux

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Mark Twain

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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

If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

Heath L'Estrange

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

Daniel Dennett

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

William Blackstone

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