If you google the exact words, this is what comes up:
Dear Quote Investigator: Jonathan Swift was a prominent literary figure who authored “Gulliver's Travels” and “A Modest Proposal”. He has been credited with an elegant thought about the limitations of persuasion via logical argument: You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.
If you google the exact words, this is what comes up:
Dear Quote Investigator: Jonathan Swift was a prominent literary figure who authored “Gulliver's Travels” and “A Modest Proposal”. He has been credited with an elegant thought about the limitations of persuasion via logical argument: You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.Thanks!