Quotes About Persuasion

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

When a man's position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that's the opinion he will have.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

A police interview is non-accusatory. It is an act of gathering information. An interrogation is accusatory. It is an act of persuasion. "An interrogation is conducted only when the investigator is reasonably certain of the suspect's guilt," according to Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

What a curious power words have.

maybe everyone will start believing me about the mysterious

The devil never gave a gift for free.

you must make your thoughts, views, game, and knowledge her views as well. You must plant your ideology in her mind. This way you both will be on the same page. Your

Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

What did bother him was the tone of the meetings themselves, when participants spoke about their reaction to the visitation: most of them talked about their newfound devotion to God, and they tried to persuade the bereaved that they should feel the same.

our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.