There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James Copy Share Image
“The first rule of persuasion…” “Don’t you mean manipulation?” “You” — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Life has always given me enough reasons to be negative. But I've never ceased to convince it to join me in staying… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and… — Nicholas Boothman Copy Share Image
No matter how smart you are you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to know what is the right decision when we are full of temptation but if we have God in our… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Louise Bay Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off… — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or… — Tom Latham Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
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