Argument Quote by Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.”
![“He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df8/john-stuart-mill-477_able_he-must-be-able-to-hear-them-the-counter_1955293.jpg)
