"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different": John Dewey
How true!!
It is very true. Too bad people don't apply this to religious beliefs and principles to look and think outside their box rather than blindly follow that which they've always been taught to believe!
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