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“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”

Reason Argument Logic Overcoming Prejudice Destroyed

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.”

Hard Belief Particular Argument Overcoming Fundamentals Assumption Logical Yield Irrational Irrational Beliefs Logical Arguments

Author:Thomas Campbell

“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.”

“All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.”

Needs Kind Long Bigs Energy Term Common Commitment Argument Overcoming Innovation Investment Long Term Barriers Public Sector

Author:Ted Nordhaus

“It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.”

Knows Ideas Reason Facts Realizing Silence Argument Overcoming Debate No Reason Disagree Battlefields Ideological Intimidating Opposing Slander Counterparts

Book:Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.”

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.”

Ifs Men Argument Overcoming Anger Angry Rage

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”

Ifs Men Language Silence Forgiveness Argument Overcoming Dresses Noble Wounds Cures Injury Scar Oblivion Hasty

Author:Francis Beaumont

“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”

Literature Friendship Silence Argument Overcoming Noble Injury

Author:Francis Beaumont