The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
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.
On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.