You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
We all come to the [Supreme] Court with our bags fully packed. What we take out of them may not have been used before, but they were there.
All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgement is warped by that influence.
If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.
Methodology is applied ideology.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.
