Quotes About Persuasion

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of what is true on adequate evidence.

recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. "We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible …

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Greatest trick ever played on mankind is that somewhere, somebody sold us a bill of goods convincing us that evil ain't real." I

It's not that there is less information on television than there once was. In fact, there is so much information that "fact" is now defined as something believed by so many people that television notices their belief, and truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.

Anything is true if it's said loud enough.

Any idea is true if it sells the books.

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

It isn't actually a question of guilt or innocence, is it? It's a matter of what the jury believes, once we've told them what evidence there is on either side. Given the proper evidence, we could probably convict God. Without it, Lucifer himself would walk free!

and sometimes this daily disappointment, this constant agony of hope deferred, would bring me to my knees by that door begging her to open to me, crying to her in every term of passionate endearment and persuasion that tortured heart of man could think to use.

He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover.

Sure he's dead, and it's a good thing for us. It's hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can't change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint.

Raylene- Actually... I have an idea. Adrian- Oh no. R- No, it's a *good* idea. A- I don't believe you.

You cannot convince people to love you.

You'll have a faithful Indian companion. Girl Friday. Whatever you want. I'll even launder my own irreclaimable socks. You've already told me I'm a terrific conversationalist, and I'm a person you know who's not dead. Think carefully before you turn down an offer like this.

This is how your mind plays game with you. If it wants you to do something, it will find a hundred reasons to justify it.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Now the man in the street knows nothing of Biometrika: all he knows is that "you can prove anything by figures," though he forgets this the moment figures are used to prove anything he wants to believe.

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.

The word is mightier than the sword.

Merely to ask, "Is that true? Do I and my hearers believe that?" does not produce instant answers. But failing to contend with those basic questions means we will speak only to those who are already committed.

nothing is as effective as spectacular real-life cases – successful or otherwise – in persuading people.

Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.