Dialectics Quote by William Blake

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

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

— Anonymous

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

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language…

— Kenneth Burke

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

“Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers.…

— Neal Stephenson

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

— Amy Waldman

“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

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient…

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a…

— Richard M. Weaver

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

— Jeremy Collier