Quotes About Persuasion

I'm so skilled at convincing people of lies, but I don't know how to convince you of the truth. I love you with all my heart and all of my soul. I will love you until I draw my last breath.

Make man believe he is doing the right thing, with enough convincing powers, by any means so appropriate, then man, this being that was made superior by God, may do the most sinister thing,both imaginable and in real time

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

There's no point discussing an engagement with a person determined that nothing will convince her that her love is not the be-all and end-all of her life.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Unlike most of us, who tend to be transparent, people rarely see through a psychopath," she continued. "He's masterful. People trust and believe him. Even like him. It's his great skill. Convincing people that his point of view is legitimate and right, often when all the evidence points in the other direction. Like Iago. It's a kind of magic.

People were capable of believing almost anything. And hope was even more sweeping and powerful.

believing something was even more powerful than knowing it.

Referencing the Democrats $2 trillion infrastructure bill and the projects it will pay for- "They're asking us to get in the van but they aren't showing us the candy!"

If I could have a superpower, it'd be the ability to make all my enemies change their minds and see things MY way.

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Anna is thirteen. Anna lives with her mother. Anna's mother is opposing counsel. How can Anna possibly live in the same home and not be swayed by Sara Fitzgerald?

Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

A rule of thumb: the truth teller merely conveys, while the liar often tries to convince.

Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.

Tell a story often enough and it becomes the truth.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do