Persuading Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both… — John Berger
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any… — Ambrose Bierce
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by… — Benjamin Rush
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that… — Bartolome de las Casas
A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating… — Kevin Mattson
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they… — Richard Dawkins
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them.… — Harry S. Truman
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe… — Gautama Buddha
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and… — Socrates
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet
Gold is a deep-persuading orator. — Richard Barnfield
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the… — Alex Carey
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of… — Tim O'Reilly
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience. — Maurice Saatchi
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children… — Mark Skousen
I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free… — Pietro Mascagni
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the… — Ambrose Bierce
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. — John Cage

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