Quotes About Persuasion

The truth is the best propaganda.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

Words were made only for babblers, women, and lawyers. Like Bismarck once said: "Words were given to us to hide our thoughts.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.