Explicit Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

“We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they…

— Gary Goldhammer

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside.…

— Timothy Keller

Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than…

— Andrei Shleifer

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a…

— Geoff Nicholson

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at…

— Benjamin F. Wade

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...

— Llewellyn Rockwell

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is…

— Dianne Feinstein

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing…

— Sheri Fink