Persuade Quotes

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. (Muriel Spark)
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. View quote
Leó Szilárd
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. View quote
Charles Darwin
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. (George Bernard Shaw)
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her. View quote
David Ogilvy
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. View quote
Philip Sidney
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. View quote
Doris Lessing
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of man without an orator. View quote
William Shakespeare
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. View quote
Frank Herbert
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. View quote
Chuck Schumer
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. (William James)
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. View quote
Branch Rickey
The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,-there, if one must speak out, the real man. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. View quote
W. H. Auden