We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
