Quotes About Persuasion

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.

I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument.

I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

Half the civilized world makes a living by telling lies. Advertising, propaganda, and all the other forms of publicity that have taken the place of truth have taught men to take it for granted that they can tell other people whatever they like provided that it sounds plausible and evokes some kind of shallow emotional response.

Time makes more converts than reason.

He steers a Loxodrome for the cabinet where ardent Spirits are kept for Guests of the Wet Persuasion, and pretends to weigh his Choice.

How does one man get the power to make the rest see in themselves what he sees in them?

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

a type of violence, that much charm continuously wielded, a blade that severed you from your own good sense.

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

There is only one way to get anybody to do anything do you know what it is? This is far from a trivial question. Business is, after all, the ability to motivate a group of individuals to move an idea from concept to reality; to take a theory and make it a practice; to gain the buy-in of your employees and colleagues; to encourage others to execute your plans

Connecting your story with a known entity—be it a politician, celebrity, or famous businessperson—acts as a de facto slant. Bottom line: The media want recognizable faces in their pages.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

Words matter, words have import.

When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.

For rhetoric as such is not rooted in any past condition of human society. It is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic, and is continually born anew; the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

2. Another type of unbelief is failure to be persuaded. The children of Israel knew they were to take the Promised Land, because God had said He had given it to them. But they could not be persuaded to act on His Word. There are many believers who are informed about God's Word, but they cannot be persuaded to act on it. This is unbelief. The cure for this particular kind of unbelief is obedience.