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2,252. That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
And wrangle with my reason that persuades me. (Reason & Persuasion) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night IV iii 13-14, Sebastian
24,316. Q: What must I do to convince you people?
Worf: Die. (Star Trek & Persuasion) Star Trek: The Next Generation: Deja Q s3e13
59,577. Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade. (Rome & Persuasion) Edward Gibbon 1737-94, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch68
84,921. I’m really not interested in persuading people. What I like to do is help people persuade themselves. Professor Noam Chomsky
84,922. Let every man be persuaded of his own mind. Romans 14:5
84,923. Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. (Persuasion & Debate & Speech & Speak) Aristotle
84,924. Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. (Persuasion & Demonstration) Aristotle
84,926. Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. (Persuasion & Debate) Aristotle
84,925. Persuasion is often more effectual than force. Aesop
84,927. The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay
84,929. Then I asked: ‘Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?’ He replied: ‘All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.’ William Blake
84,930. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated. Jane Austen, Persuasion 1818, Anne
84,931. There is hardly an example of a mass movement achieving vast proportions and a durable organization solely by persuasion. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer 1951
84,932. It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions. John Locke