Quotes about Persuasion

Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Our evangelistic task is not to persuade people that the gospel was made for their felt needs, but that they were made for the soul-satisfying glory of God in the gospel.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.