persuasion Quotes

A statement is convincing and believable either because it's obviously true or because it seems proven by other statements that are true.

When preparing a speech, one must consider three things: how to convince people, the language to use, and the proper order of the speech parts.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is... ...

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... ...

People are more easily influenced by fear than by respect.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in... ...