Aristotle Persuasion Quotes

#1. It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Aristotle.

#2. I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally ... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Antony Sher

#3. Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Aristotle.

#4. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle.

#5. Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Aristotle.

#6. I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentment forgotten as they faced the great equalizer of death.

P.D. James

#7. I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

Robert Mallet

#10. Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.

Aristotle.

#11. There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and

Aristotle.

#12. Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Edward Dahlberg

#13. In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Aristotle.

#14. I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

Christine Gregoire

#15. I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Miles Teller

#16. It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion.

Aristotle.

#17. No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

Mark Twain

#18. For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Aristotle.

#19. 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.

Aristotle.