Quotes about Persuasion
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
— George Washington
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
— Winston Churchill
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.
— Anonymous
Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"
— Anonymous
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.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
— John Henry Newman
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!
— DL Moody
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.
— Ayn Rand
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
— CS Lewis
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
— Victor Hugo