Quotes About Persuasion

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!