Education Quote by Henry David Thoreau

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy.”

— Aristotle

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

— Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

— George Santayana

“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece…

— Aristotle

“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

“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place;…

— Oli Anderson