Persuasion Quotes

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to ...

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise...

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may ...

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language...

Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a chall...

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea firs...

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuas...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to...

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it...

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be r...

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know i...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is ...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he...

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position...

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their cha...

You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted...

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best...

'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the ...

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any in...