“I could never find out anything about Liszt's teaching methods from Rosenthal, except that it was difficult to persuade Liszt to leave the cafe and go back to the studio for a lesson.”
Charles Rosen
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it”
James Russell Lowell
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”
Calvin Trillin
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
