“Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it”
James Russell Lowell
“When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”
Bible
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“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.”
Charles Darwin
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes