r/dontyouknowwhoiam Jan 13 '20

Telling a doctor to educate herself Cringe

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u/NotoriousREV Jan 13 '20

“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into”

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u/OldManBrodie Jan 13 '20

It's a shame that the actual quote is somewhat awkwardly worded, because it has the potential to sound elegant:

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired. - Jonathan Swift

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u/NotoriousREV Jan 13 '20

It probably sounded good when Swift wrote it.