Who said You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into?

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2026-03-20 21:51

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I believe it is a paraphrase of Jonathan Swift:

From Wikiquote:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

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

  • As quoted in Treasury of thought: forming an encyclopædia of quotations from ancient and modern authors (1872) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 433.
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