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

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

— Anonymous

“A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.”

— Jane Austen

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them…

— Francis Quarles

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which…

— Napoleon Hill

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the…

— Leonard Peikoff

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor…

— Henry David Thoreau

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

— Therese of Lisieux