“Don't ever let anyone convince you that your imagination is wrong.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Anytime you want to create something different, you have to convince people that it's O.K. 'We'll be O.K. It's going to work… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“You can trust me.” “Trust you? I hardly know you.” The protect sounded weak, despite the force with which she pushed it… — Lara Adrian Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
“Any skilled con artist knows the key to deceiving your mark is to get them to believe your scheme was their idea.… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
“Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.” — Daniel Black Copy Share Image
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things to do in life, is to convince yourself to hate the things you really love. — RBUENDIA Copy Share Image