Quotes About Persuasion

She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why she could climb higher than anyone else. She had desire. She was hungry for them.

THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They are the ones who could climb the highest.

The young man wandered around for quite some time, thinking, planning, and figuring out exactly how to make the world his. Then one day, out of nowhere, it struck him—the perfect plan. He'd seen a mother walking with her child. At one point, she admonished the small boy, until finally, he began to cry. Within a few minutes, she spoke very softly to him, after which he was soothed and even smiled.

THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it's amazing what a few packs of French cigarettes will do.

jiggery pokery – which is the ancient nomadic term for doing things with words.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.

Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.

A faith is not acquired by reasoning. One does not fall in love with a woman, or enter the womb of a church, as a result of logical persuasion. Reason may defend an act of faith-but only after the act has been committed, and the man com­mitted to the act.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins hearts for us in advance.

Dowodz?c komukolwiek zupe?nie spokojnie, ?e nie ma racji, a wi?c b??dnie my?li i s?dzi — a bywa to przy ka?dym dialektycznym zwyci?stwie — z?o?cisz go wi?cej ni? gburowato?ci? i obelgami

oddalenie w czasie pozbawia powszechno?? (poglÄ…du) wÅ'aÅ›ciwiej siÅ'y przekonywujÄ…cej, inaczej bowiem musieliby powróci? do wszystkich bÅ'Ä™dów, które niegdyÅ› uznawano za prawdÄ™, np. do systemu Ptolemeusza, lub do przywrócenia katolicyzmu w krajach protestanckich;

Autorytety, których przeciwnik wcale nie rozumie, po wiÄ™kszej cz??ci oddziaÅ'ywajÄ… najsilniej.

ProwadzÄ…cy dysputÄ™ walczy zwykle nie za prawdÄ™, lecz za swojÄ… tezÄ™ (...) Ka?dy wiÄ™c pragnie zwyci??y? zawsze, nawet wówczas, kiedy wÅ'asne twierdzenie uzna w danej chwili za bÅ'Ä™dne lub wÄ…tpliwe.

ten, kto wychodzi ze sporu zwyci?zc?, do?? cz?sto zawdzi?cza to nie tyle prawid?owo?ci s?du przy obronie swej tezy, ile sztuce i zr?czno?ci, z jak? to wykonywa?

After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.