Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man does not recover from such a passion, from such a woman, he ought not, he does not. — Captain Wentworth Copy Share Image
“that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Old-school marketing is based on persuasion; new marketing is based on invitation.” — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out… — Marc Thiessen Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Failures are part of life, but most people deny their persuasion due to fear of failure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
“You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
