“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -… — Michael Hastings 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
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether… — Karen Armstrong 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
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
A worried person sees the problem in every thing and a concerned person solves the problem. Worry is the worst enemy of… — Anil Sinha 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
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I… — William Laud Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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