Quotes about Persuasion
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
— Charles Hodge
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
— John Tillotson
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
— Brigham Young
With words we govern men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
— CS Lewis
Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.
— Thomas a Kempis
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. —BLAISE PASCAL
— Norman Geisler
Forcing people to "freely" believe is a contradiction in terms. God is love (1 John 4:16), and love cannot work coercively — only persuasively.
— Norman Geisler
Again our illusion of reprieve found confirmation. The SS men seemed almost charming. Soon we found out their reason. They were nice to us as long as they saw watches on our wrists and could persuade us in well-meaning tones to hand them over.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say,' grumbled Tackleton.
— Charles Dickens
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
— Oscar Wilde