"You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic."
Info & reflection: Consistent with Simon's work on bounded rationality: people don't decide on pure logic, so winning an argument on logic doesn't touch the real mechanism that forms beliefs. A useful reminder against the temptation to "be right" in a discussion, thinking the strongest argument is enough.
Related in anthology
- The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. — Camus ties the need to be right to coarseness of mind, not to a search for truth.