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Donovan Schaefer Quotes

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Donovan O. Schaefer is an author and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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When you change how somebody feels, you’re changing how they think. And when you change how they think, you’re changing how they feel. That, in essence, is persuasion.

The liberal fantasy of a rational public sphere—in which people are always and everywhere persuaded by better arguments, more evidence, more facts—is a myth; but it’s also a mistake to think that someone who isn’t persuaded by new information is fundamentally immune to facts.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Donovan Schaefer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.