Quotes About Persuasion

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.