Quotes about Persuasion

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Rhetoric uses syllogisms and other suasions to bring about a change of heart and of mind.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.