Quotes About Persuasion

Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth.

Trans campaigners intent on arguing that trans is hardware can only win their argument if they persuade people that being a woman is a matter of software. And not all feminists are willing to concede that one.

Dismissiveness, no matter how forcefully or broadly it may be communicated, has no persuasive value when attempting to reject evidence that calls one's view into question. - Douglas Petrovich 19 March 2021

Paradoxically, there is also considerable persuasion power in inquiry and listening.

Telling someone to change makes it less rather than more likely that they will.

What they really mean is that "numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers." With this, I completely agree,

Douglas W. Hubbard

Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated.

Such laws, such foolish resistance, can cause short-term grief. Think again of Herod and the little boys he slaughtered. But think also about how ineffectual it was. Did he stop the morning star from rising? Did he stop the day from coming? In the same way, we must know that the message of Christmas is not that we have to persuade anybody of anything. The message is far more good news declaration than it is argumentation.

Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's not pretend that it's rationality.

How can you persuade a man whose livelihood depends upon him remaining unpersuaded?

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Money doesn't have to talk. It shouts with a whisper.

Point the biggest skeptic out, Ill make him a believer.

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

People readily believe what they want to believe.