“Belief is not a matter of evidence, it is a matter of choice. This is why a person convinced against their will, remains unconvinced, still. Evidence rarely informs our beliefs. More often, our beliefs filter and interpret the evidence. If you believed that elves cause rain, every rainy day would be proof of elves. Objective reality waits for no one’s opinion. But objective reality is the realm of objects that have no biases or emotions. Your mind, and mine, exist in perceptual reality. Objective reality is a foreign land we have heard of, but have never visited. So the real question is: What do you choose to believe?”
– Roy H. Williams