Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan SwiftWho can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
Jonathan SwiftThere never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
Jonathan Swift