Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

"This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him."

By:	Gilbert Keith Chesterton (more quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton or books by/about Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
	(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Source:	Illustrated London News, Feb 29,1925
Categories:	Free Thought, Learning, Reason, Wisdom
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