Different ways Quote by Robert Graves

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the…

— Del Quentin Wilber

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his…

— John Locke

“There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or, simply, kindhearted…

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other…

— Galileo Galilei

“I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight in it,…

— Benjamin Franklin

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

— Anonymous

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to…

— James Madison

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft