Quotes about Persuasion

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.)

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of what is true on adequate evidence.

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

The President may have a great many powers given to him by the Constitution and may have certain powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President had is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

is very aware of the other's sin and working hard to get the other to see it too.

Influence requires more intuition than intellect.