Book Quote by John Robert Seeley

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so…

— Plato

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to…

— Aristotle

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

Without discernment, we are all fools to persuasion.

— Drew Istotle

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

— Jim Rohn

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by…

— Ray Comfort

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

— Jay Heinrichs

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity…

— Aristotle

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

— Edward Gibbon