Top 25 Persuasion Quotes of 84 - Page 2

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

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

Mean, May, Persuasion

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Plato

Persuasion, Knows, Seeking

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

Barry Goldwater

Tyrants, Law, Persuasion

Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

Persuasion is better than force.

Aesop

Life, Persuasion, Force

Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

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

John Henry Patterson

Trying, Persuasion, Convincing

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Harry Allen Overstreet

Secret, Persuasion, Persons

Harry Allen Overstreet (1925). “Influencing Human Behavior”

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Aesop

Succeed, Failing, Persuasion

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

William Bernbach

Art, Advertising, Persuasion

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Persuasion, Reason, Ends

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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

Lord Chesterfield

Persuasion, Conviction, Convincing

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.65, Oxford University Press

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Reynolds

Mind, Persuasion, States

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.95

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

John Calvin

Persuasion, Certain, Benevolence

John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.501, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Majority, Persuasion

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.52

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Herman Kahn

Coercion, Seduction, Persuasion

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Albert Camus

Culture, World, Persuasion

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

William Blake

Doe, Persuasion, Firm

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Plato

Art, Giving, Persuasion

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1535, e-artnow