Conception Quote by Richard Whately

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

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle

“They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But…

— David Weber

“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

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

— Aristotle

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

— Anonymous

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

“Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.”

— Scott Adams

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and…

— Gorgias

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

— Jeremy Collier

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle