We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Quote by Jessamyn West

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...