effectiveness Quotes

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states... ...

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from... ...

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.