Convincing Quotes

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.