Education Quote by Aristotle

“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle

“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually…

— William Strunk Jr

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would…

— Jonathan Swift

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language…

— Kenneth Burke

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of…

— Mary Astell

“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.”

— Leonard Koren

“The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical”

— Aristotle

“Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this”

— Haidji