The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works. — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now… — Gorgias 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
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power… — John Stumpf Copy Share Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it--oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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