The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and…

“Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and…

— Daniel Kahneman

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside.…

— Timothy Keller

Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than…

— Andrei Shleifer

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a…

— Geoff Nicholson

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at…

— Benjamin F. Wade

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...

— Llewellyn Rockwell

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is…

— Dianne Feinstein

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing…

— Sheri Fink

You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance,…

— Anonymous

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach…

— Barry Eisler

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to…

— Mother Teresa