Convince Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

— Sophie Kinsella

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

— Robert Dale Owen

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

— Auberon Herbert

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less…

— Tom Stoppard

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which…

— Abraham Lincoln

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

— Thomas Jefferson

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained,…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

— Robert Green Ingersoll