Carrie Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would…

— Plato

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole,…

— Richard Whately

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

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be…

— Jonathan Swift

“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually…

— Aristotle

As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of…

— Thomas Szasz

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

— William Jennings Bryan

“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