Quotes About Persuasion

Nothing inspires a man like a solid argument

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was so much ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. Besides, she found herself in circumstances where everything must be risked for the sake of everything.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Mire, mi querido amigo, sólo hay una forma de hablar bien desde la tribuna, y consiste en estar plenamente convencido, al llegar a ella, de que se es el hombre más inteligente del mundo».

Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...

She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?

the weight of evidence 'cannot convince those who do not wish to believe

La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.

INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary quo given in exchange for a substantial quid.

It wasn't lost on Vick that he was giving her the same compliments she'd just given Tallow. Some people you reel in by making them think they need you. More often, it's making them think you need them. People want to feel good about themselves. Want to feel needed. Vick wondered if she'd been reeled in already. Long ago.

Laž se može pretvoriti u istinu ako se izvikuje dovoljo ?esto.

Undertakers were great ones for persuading grieving folk to spend money they didn't have. That way, debt could follow you even into the Land of the Dead.

fine lies beat tedious truths every time,

La forma de doblegar a una persona para que cumpla tu voluntad es ofrecerle lo que ella quiere, no obligarla a pronunciar un juramento.

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.

By the same means, if you were to change how you feel, could you become more suggestible to a new stream of thoughts? Absolutely! By feeling an elevated emotion and allowing a whole new set of thoughts to be driven by that new feeling, you'd increase your level of suggestibility to what you were feeling and then thinking.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

What one believes does not, therefore, have to be proved, and a proposition can be ever so incontrovertibly proven without on that account being believed.

When they talk among themselves, advertising people have been admitting since the 1920s that their job is to make people feel inadequate—and then offer their product as the solution to the sense of inadequacy they have created.

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.

That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.