Quotes About Persuasion

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

How forcible are right words!

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

Soft words are hard arguments.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I would say the broadcaster holds the shotgun in his hand when he's communicating, mainly because he is a part of the audience more than he is a communicator. That is his first strength. Next, he has the force — the power of the wires strung over the whole world. Then, he has the tools of persuasion. His cameras and microphones are mightier than the pen. He can bend the straw, and all he needs to do it is Truth. With truth, force, and persuasion he can save this country.