Persuasion Quotes - Page 3

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.