Quotes About Persuasion

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

With words we govern men.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

A certain nobility is implicit in saying what I don't believe and hoping you believe it.)

Why do you take by force what you could obtain by love? —WAHUNSONACOCK (POWHATAN), POWHATAN, 1547–1622 On

Winston Churchill said, "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 a third time—a tremendous whack.

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.