Persuades Quotes
34 quotes by 30 authors
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
— Samuel Johnson
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
— Akif Pirincci
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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil…
— Jorie Graham
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Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
— Rajneesh
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If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow…
— Mitch Daniels
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how…
— Terry Eagleton
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In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a…
— Rajneesh
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency…
— Samuel Johnson
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
— Aristotle
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
— Anita Roddick
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and…
— Oliver Cromwell
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear…
— Seth Godin
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Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has…
— Colleen Jones
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God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
— Roger Fry
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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