Convincing Quotes
312 quotes by 294 authors
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending…
— William Blake
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I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There…
— Joyce Brothers
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children…
— Marshall Fritz
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
— Glenn Archer
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.
— E. W. Howe
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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just…
— Boyd K. Packer
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I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying…
— Laurence Olivier
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
— John Henry Patterson
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
— Thomas Carlyle
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
— Laurence Olivier
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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