Quotes about Persuasion
I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you're explaining, you're losing.
- Ronald Reagan
Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle
Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
- Charles Swindoll
You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.
- Ed Stetzer
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
- Anonymous
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
- Anonymous
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.
- Anonymous
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
- Anonymous
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Aldous Huxley