If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't…

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came…

— Peter Singer

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.”

— Jude Morgan

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the…

— Vernon L. Smith

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

— Karl Marx

“Joan played den mother to the rebirth of American individualism. That she filled that role for so many is why I am grateful that…

— Charles Murray

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from…

— Suzanne Lee

“I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary.”

— Beatrix Potter

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

— Dita Von Teese

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

— Angela Davis

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

— Bryan Stevenson

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political…

— George Washington

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe