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Where is this quote from?
June 19, 2012 at 3:34 am
Does anyone know where this quote or a similar paraphrase is from?
"You can not reason a man out of a position he did not arrive at by attempting to use reason."
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RE: Where is this quote from?
June 19, 2012 at 3:51 am
"You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into." - Ben Franklin
Not 100% sure if that is authentic, but that's what I got from Google.
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RE: Where is this quote from?
June 19, 2012 at 11:58 am
Sidney Smith (1771-1845):
"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
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RE: Where is this quote from?
June 19, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Voltaire:
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
Boo-yah!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'