(92 quotes found)
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it”
James Russell Lowell
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
“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
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“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
“He told me to go wherever I felt comfortable, ... He didn't try to persuade me. He told me to follow my heart.”
Bruce Johnson
“We take great pains to persuade other that we are happy than in to think so ourselves.”
Confucius
“The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.”
Camille Paglia
