Quotes About Persuasion

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

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.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.