Quotes about Persuasion
Discretion plays a major part in making up the salesman's art, for truths that no one can believe are calculated to deceive.
— Dorothy Sayers
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
— Elbert Hubbard
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
— Epictetus
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
— Abraham Lincoln
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
— Abraham Lincoln
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
— Euripides
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
— Napoleon Hill